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Government Warns: Pell Grant Program in Trouble
22 September 08 02:47 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Without additional taxpayer funds next year, the government’s “most important” federal financial aid program may be unable to provide Pell Grants to millions of eligible low-income students, likely pricing these students out of a higher education, according Read More...

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Student Loan Providers May Get Government Help for One More Year
17 September 08 05:08 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

With problems in the credit markets continuing to plague student loan providers, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a year-long extension of the Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act , which allows the secretary of education Read More...

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Sex Offenders May Lose Pell Grant Eligibility Under Revised Higher Education Act
04 August 08 04:49 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Starting July 1, 2009, sex offenders confined in treatment centers throughout the country may no longer be eligible to receive need-based federal Pell Grants , under a new provision of the reauthorized Higher Education Act, according to an article in Read More...

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New Higher-Ed Bill May Get Through Congress This Week
30 July 08 06:54 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Five years overdue, the House and the Senate may finally reach a compromise on the re-authorized Higher Education Act, the law that predominantly governs student aid, according to an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education (“ With Compromises, Higher-Ed Read More...

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Provision of Higher Education Act May Force Schools to Spy on Online Students
28 July 08 09:24 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Language in the bill, currently before Congress, to re-authorize the Higher Education Act could lead distance-learning institutions to use home-monitoring devices to police their students who take courses online, according to an article in The Chronicle Read More...

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Proposed Bill Combines House, Senate Versions of the Higher Education Act
14 May 08 04:51 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Congressional aides hope to finalize a renewal of the Higher Education Act by Memorial Day that merges different versions of the proposed bill passed separately by the House of Representatives and the Senate last year, according to an article in The Chronicle Read More...

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Expanded Tuition Benefits for Veterans Gaining Momentum in Congress
07 May 08 05:41 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

When the original G.I. Bill became law in the 1940s, it covered the full cost of tuition, housing, and living expenses for military veterans. Today’s G.I. Bill benefits have not kept up with the rising costs of college. Veterans currently receive the Read More...

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Credit Unions Offer Themselves as Partial Solution to Looming Student Loan Crisis
12 April 08 11:19 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In the last six months alone, since legislators eliminated over $21 billion in subsidies to student loan lenders in the Federal Family Education Loan Program, at least 44 FFELP lenders have stopped originating federal student loans. This exodus of lenders Read More...

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Congress Joins States and Colleges in Efforts to Reduce Soaring Textbook Costs
03 March 08 07:09 AM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

With the average college student now shelling out between $900 and $1,000 each year for textbooks and supplies, according to the College Board ’s latest Trends in College Pricing report, schools, states, and now Congress are getting involved in the crusade Read More...

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