November 18, 2005

Bush Backs Away From Katrina Plan

By STEPHEN BURD

The Bush administration appears to have given up on a proposal to help colleges that have taken in students displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

In September the U.S. secretary of education, Margaret Spellings, announced that President Bush would ask Congress for $227-million to help students and colleges affected by the hurricane. Much of that money was to provide $1,000 payments to colleges for each dislocated student they had enrolled.

President Bush, however, did not include that

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