[The 2012] budget proposes no changes to traditional Pell grants, which are currently at their highest level ever. What it does is halt, after just two years, a program launched in the 2009-2010 school year that allowed students to apply for a whole second Pell grant for summer school or if they took extra credits.
That program turned out to cost 10 times more than expected, and there was no evidence it was helping anyone graduate from college faster. Instead, it appeared to be the case that for-profit colleges were gaming the system to encourage students to apply for the additional grants to take academically questionable courses.
The tax-profiteers play their games and ruin a good program.
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Update: Trash talk.
February 15th, 2011 at 7:43AM
Bummer. Those summer grants were helping some of our students pay for their required internship.
November 14th, 2011 at 10:57AM
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