And in Atlanta, 24 out of the 40 Darden restaurants in the city came together to help the local Boys and Girls Clubs improve graduation rates and college attendance through efforts like college fairs and help filling out student aid and college applications.
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Student groups and college groups wanted more money for student financial aid.
Obama cited a plan to provide college tuition aid in return for student community service.
Any college or university that awards federal student aid must require that students complete the FAFSA in order to determine eligibility for federal aid (it works for most state aid too).
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There is no credible evidence that student aid is driving up college tuition rates.
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Operating under legitimate-sounding names like National Scholarship Foundation, College Financial Aid Services of America and Student Assistance Services--all of which have been shut down by the FTC--they guarantee college scholarships and increased financial aid.
But one way they would pay for it is to cut back our education spending by 20 percent and eliminate about 200, 000 Head Start programs and reduce student aid to go to college for about 8 million students.
The Department of Education announced a simpler, more user-friendly college aid application, the Free Application for Federal Student Air (FAFSA).
In a 2006 report by a congressional advisory committee on student financial aid, only 54% of college-qualified low-income students enrolled in a four-year college and 21% in a two-year college.
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The below chart plots the growth in total federal and state student aid against the change in one measure of college affordability: the ratio of real average FTE enrollment-weighted tuition to real median family income.
They are spurred on by scandal many lenders like Student Loan Xpress have been caught handing illegal kickbacks to college aid officials and by the fact that a private-equity consortium, led by J.
In real terms, appropriations for federal student aid have increased 62% since 1975, and public and private college tuition and fees have gone up 14.5% and 29.3%, respectively.
For purposes of the tuition and fees deduction, qualified education expenses are tuition (clearly) and related expenses required for enrollment or attendance at an eligible educational institution (any college, university, vocational school, or other postsecondary educational institution eligible to participate in a student aid program administered by the U.S. Department of Education).
Congress also may make cuts in the Pell grant, the most popular federal college grant, says Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid.org, which tracks financial aid and student-loan debt.
An eligible educational institution is any college, university, vocational school, or other post-secondary educational institution eligible to participate in a student aid program administered by the Department of Education.
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