And so I significantly increased the Pell Grant program by tens of billions of dollars.
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For example, a Pell grant for higher education can be obtained when tuition is due.
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Last year, I proposed and you passed 220, 00 new Pell grant scholarships for deserving students.
The Chronicle of Higher Education has devoted considerable attention recently to the federal Pell Grant program.
The negative spillover effects of the Pell Grant program are hard to measure but I think real.
And one of the things that we want to do is on the Pell grant program, for example.
He consistently opposed efforts to eliminate programs and offered dozens of budget amendments to increase the maximum Pell Grant.
The Pell grant reached about nine million students in 2011-12, according to FinAid.org.
Pell Grant is the most important way that we open the door of opportunity to college for 9 million students.
How many of you who are in the audience have gotten a Pell Grant to help you pay your way?
Then it subtracts any aid, such as a Pell Grant, scholarship or loan, the family expects the student to receive.
In 2007, Congress increased the Pell Grant, the federal scholarship for low-income students, and reduced the cost of need-based student loans.
My sidekick Andrew Gillen (my financial aid guru) and I have always made one exception to that criticism: the Pell Grant Program.
On higher education, the president is working with Congress to increase funding for the Pell grant, which is targeted to low-income students.
We protected programs for student loans through the Pell Grant program, for example. (Applause.) We protected programs for hungry kids.
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The company said it supports efforts in Congress that would increase college access for needy students, such as increased Pell Grant funding.
But the Pell Grant gives absolutely no incentives for students to succeed, and students cannot be rejected for any reason other than income.
Epstein said the school will keep admissions need-blind and provide additional scholarships depending on need, including full-tuition scholarships to all Pell Grant-eligible students.
She utilizes MYCAA and Pell grant funding for tuition and expenses and has her financial obligation supplemented with a Columbia College Spouse Opportunity Grant.
We still need to expand more the Pell Grant program and make it both accessible to more people and raise the amount of tuition.
And that's why the Recovery Act that was passed last year invested in their infrastructure and technology and nearly doubled the Pell Grant award.
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So we significantly increased the level of each Pell Grant, and we also put more money so that we could have more Pell Grants.
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My question to you is, will your administration support continued increases to the Pell Grant so that our neediest students have access to higher education?
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In our current budget, we are calling for mandatory increases in Pell Grant programs to keep up with inflation, improvements in the Perkins Loan Program.
Despite MYCAA and Federal Pell grant funding, she and her husband eventually had to dip into their savings to pay for the full cost of classes.
Look, the Pell grant has, for a long, long time, failed to keep up with, in any moderate way, with the rapid growth in college tuition.
The federal government, meanwhile, with regard to Pell Grants and grants related to Pell Grants for students from poorer families has dramatically cut the Pell Grant system.
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Congress also may make cuts in the Pell grant, the most popular federal college grant, says Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid.org, which tracks financial aid and student-loan debt.
The take-up rate on the Pell Grant program has skyrocketed.
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Under an earlier proposal, Ehrenberg said, the government would have restricted the number of years students could receive subsidized loans and siphoned the extra money into Pell grant funding.
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