U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings delivered remarks today to the Federal Student Aid Conference in Las Vegas, Nev. Secretary Spellings discussed action taken by the Administration to promote college accessibility, ...
For every Federal Pell Grant dollar, the state contributed only 6 cents. There also was a large gap between the state’s investment in need-based financial aid compared to federal investment, 6 percent compared to 89 percent from ...
For more information on recent actions taken by the Department of Education to ensure students and families have continued access to federal student loans, please visit http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2008/11/11202008.html. ...
The Teacher and Principal Training and Recruiting Fund—better known as Title II, Part A of NCLB—is the federal government’s second-largest K-12 investment, after the Title I grants for disadvantaged students. Ninety-five percent of the ...
Among the sources for most nonprofits are federal grants through agencies such as Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Health Resources Services Administration and Department of Education. ...
And students who agree to teach after graduation in a high-need, low-income area will receive $4000 per year under the federal Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) grant. If they don't fulfill their ...
Grantees can receive up to $5000 as part of the commission's Sportfishing and Aquatic Resource Education Grants. The funding can be applied to the purchase of equipment, materials and costs associated with field trips. ...
More programs will have a chance at the airwaves after community radio station KAOS, based out of The Evergreen State College, received a grant that will enable it to broadcast digital signals.
In 1998, Congress eliminated the seven-year floor primarily as a budget savings gimmick to pay for student loan changes it made when it reauthorized the Higher Education Act that year. Finally, in 2005, lawmakers included private loans ...
A new federal grant program could help jump-start the housing market. The Department of Housing and Urban Development has initiated a $3.9 billion grant, called the ‘Neighborhood Stabilization Program.’ ...
