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Publication Date: September 2005
Publisher: Center for Law and Social Policy
Author(s): Amy-Ellen Duke; Julie Strawn
Research Area: Education
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
On September 8th, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee unanimously approved S. 1614, bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the Higher Education Act. Among the billÂ’s provisions that will help low income adults are new, supplemental Pell grants to the poorest students; expansion of Pell grants to students enrolled less than half-time or attending year round; pilots of student aid for modularized programs; and grants to prepare nontraditional students for high growth jobs. Further improvements in the bill are needed, though, to increase aid to working adults, to simplify student aid applications, and to prevent fraud and abuse.