April 16, 2004
Bush Seeks Time Limit on Pell Grants
Community colleges say proposal would harm nontraditional studentsPresident Bush has proposed putting a time limit on how long students may use Pell Grants, in order to free up money for a new program that would give low-income students $5,000 grants to study mathematics or science in college.
The president's announcement last week came as a surprise to community-college leaders, who vowed to fight the plan. They said that restricting the period over which a student can receive
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