February 4, 2005

Bush May Try to Kill 2 Pre-College Programs for Needy Students

By KELLY FIELD

President Bush may propose eliminating funds next year for two popular programs that help needy students prepare for college, in an effort to finance an expansion of his signature No Child Left Behind law to high-school students, higher-education advocates have told The Chronicle.

The college-access programs, Upward Bound and Talent Search, have a combined budget of $460-million and serve a total of about 455,000 students and veterans. While Mr. Bush's proposal will not be certain

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