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Download full textShohfi, Kyle D. – Congressional Research Service, 2019
To address concerns about the public postsecondary education offerings available to District of Columbia residents, the District of Columbia College Access Act of 1999 (P.L. 106-98) established the District of Columbia Tuition Assistance Grant (DCTAG) program. The program is meant to provide college-bound DC residents with a greater array of…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Tuition Grants, College Bound Students, Undergraduate Students
Direct linkGray, Katti – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2011
Howard University School of Law had a problem, and school officials knew it. Over a 20-year period, 40 percent of its graduates who took the Maryland bar exam failed it on their first try. During the next 24 months--the time frame required to determine its "eventual pass rate"--almost 90 percent of the students did pass. What they did…
Descriptors: Legal Education (Professions), Law Schools, Tuition Grants, Accreditation (Institutions)
Peer reviewedAbraham, Katharine G.; Clark, Melissa A. – Journal of Human Resources, 2006
The District of Columbia Tuition Assistance Grant Program (DCTAG), instituted in 1999, allows D.C. residents to attend public colleges and universities throughout the country at considerably lower in-state tuition rates. We use the sharp decline in the price of public colleges and universities faced by D.C. residents to estimate the effects of…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Tuition Grants, Public Colleges, College Applicants
Ashby, Cornelia M. – 2002
The District of Columbia College Access Act of 1999 created a grant program with the purpose of expanding higher education choices for college-bound District of Columbia residents. This program, the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant (TAG) Program, addressed the concern that D.C. students were at a disadvantage because the District of Columbia lacks a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Applicants, Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Legislation
Berkner, Lutz; Wei, Christina Chang – National Center for Education Statistics, 2006
This E.D. TAB presents selected findings about the price of attendance and the types and amounts of financial aid received by in-state undergraduates enrolled in public 2-year, public 4-year, and private not-for-profit 4-year institutions during the 2003-04 academic year in 12 selected states. It is based on the undergraduate data in the 2003-04…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, In State Students, Tuition, Student Financial Aid
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1999
This Act was passed to establish a program that enables college-bound residents of the District of Columbia to have greater choices among institutions of higher education. The Act provides that the District of Columbia, through the Mayor, will award grants to institutions of higher education in Maryland and Virginia that will pay the difference…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Federal Legislation, High School Students, High Schools
