The Chronicle of Higher Education

President Bush Will Propose Largest Pell Grant Increase in a Generation but Hasn't Said How He Would Pay for It

By KELLY FIELD

Washington

In his budget proposal for the 2008 fiscal year, President Bush plans to call for raising the maximum Pell Grant by nearly 14 percent, or $550, next year, the biggest one-year jump in the award for low-income students in more than three decades, the...

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