September 28, 2001

Education Department Cuts New Distance-Education Grants

By DAN CARNEVALE

The Department of Education won't award as many grants for distance-education projects this year as officials had originally planned, because President Bush has proposed eliminating new financing for the program in the 2002 fiscal year.

So instead of making dozens of new three-year grants, the department is making a handful of larger grants, each for as much as the institutions would otherwise have received over three years. It is also

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