January 23, 2009
New Grants Have More Takers, but Still Fall Short of Goals
Participation in two federal programs that supplement Pell Grants for high-achieving, low-income students grew significantly in the last academic year, though not as much as the Education Department had hoped, suggesting that the fledgling programs are still struggling to gain their footing.
In all, roughly 465,000 college students received aid from the Academic Competitiveness and National Smart Grant programs in 2007-8, the programs' second academic year. That is 95,000 more than in
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