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Direct linkDervarics, Charles – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2012
With negative ads already rampant on radio and TV, it's clear that President Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney differ on most issues. That statement carries over to education as well, as both offer starkly different views on K-12 and higher education policy for the fall campaign. Obama is touting a large increase in Pell Grants…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, School Choice, Grants, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textCarpenter, Dick M., II; Ross, John K. – Institute for Justice, 2008
On February 29, 2008, Gov. Bobby Jindal presented the Louisiana Legislature with a proposed budget allocating $10 million for a school choice initiative that would enable parents in New Orleans to send their children to the school of their choice, including private schools, with state-funded scholarships. Leaders of the public school establishment…
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Choice, Federal Government, Scholarships
Delisle, Jason; Luebchow, Lindsey; Rieman, Heather – New America Foundation, 2008
Next week, President George W. Bush will submit his eighth and final budget request to the Congress. How has he fared with respect to education budget proposals thus far? Answer: although President Bush made the No Child Left Behind Act, which deals with elementary and secondary education, the hallmark of his education policy, from a federal…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Budgets, Presidents
Lechuga, Vicente M. – 2000
This paper provides a basic understanding of the Pell Grant program and summarizes the evidence regarding its effectiveness. The Basic Educational Opportunities Program, known as the Pell Grant program, began in 1973 as a means of providing disadvantaged students access to a postsecondary education. The Pell Grant program has tried to keep up with…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Futures (of Society), Grants
Peer reviewedAlexander, Lamar – Education Next, 2004
In this article, the author discusses the idea of "Pell Grants for Kids," a plan that would provide a $500 scholarship to each middle- and low-income child in America. Children could use these scholarships at any public or private school or for any educational program, such as private tutoring. Homeschooled children would also be…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Educational Finance, Grants, Competition
Fuller, Bruce F., Ed.; Elmore, Richard, Ed. – 1996
The debate about school choice continues in the absence of much data about its effects on student achievement, or on anything else. This volume assembles such data. The papers in this book present recent empirical results, showing that the specific features of the choice program make a great deal of difference in influencing student outcomes. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Black Students, Educational Discrimination
