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Prepared Remarks for Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, House Education and Labor Committee, May 20, 2009
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US Department of Education, 2009
This document contains a transcript of prepared remarks for Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to the House Education and Labor Committee. The Secretary discussed provisions for education in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund to supplement state budgets. The Secretary also noted an expanded…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Change, Student Financial Aid, Public Agencies
Ambitious Goal
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Hartle, Terry W. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2009
In its first hundred days, the Obama administration demonstrated a strong commitment to expanding access to higher education. The economic stimulus package, known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), increased funding for the Pell Grant program and over the next two years, the maximum award will grow to $5,550 in 2010-2011--the…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, College Bound Students, Low Income Groups, Graduation Rate
Task Force Report on Postsecondary Education Funding: 1988-1989.
Maine State Dept. of Educational and Cultural Services, Augusta. – 1990
The report presents recommendations of Maine's Task Force on Postsecondary Education Funding, which examined the effectiveness of existing postsecondary financial aid programs serving Maine students and identified ways to ensure that costs of postsecondary education are affordable for aspiring and qualified students. After a statement of financial…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Financial Support, Higher Education, Loan Default
Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act and the Costs of Higher Education. Hearing of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session on Examining the Relationship Between Cost and Access to Postsecondary Education (Bangor, ME, May 5, 1997).
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1997
This hearing on the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, sought public comment in Maine on the cost of higher education and on Title IV of the Higher Education Act. Specifically, these hearings were intended to address the continuing low level of participation in higher education by Maine high school graduates, which was ascribed mainly to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Eligibility