February 11, 2005

Impact of a Change in the Pell Grant Formula

To the Editor:

Your story on the recently announced change in the Pell Grant formula gave short shrift to the fact that updating state tax tables in the short term could help to increase student aid in the long term ("Change in Federal Formula Means Thousands May Lose Student Aid," The Chronicle, January 7). ...

In order for Congress to responsibly raise the individual maximum award, and for the Department of Education to run the program with some modicum of predictability, the

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