Increase in pell grant award

Stimulus Plan Includes Billions for Colleges and Students

Summary:

The newly approved stimulus bill will increase the maximum award given to pell grant recipients from $4,731 to $5,350.  That is the biggest increase in US history.

Topic: Pell grants

Category: Mainstream journalistic

What is it? Article

Publication info: Ap, 2/8/09

Author: None given

Location: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/08/stimulus-plan-includes-billions-colleges-students/

Accessed: 2/11/09

Support:

American Council on Education

California university system

Chuck Middleton, president of Roosevelt University in downtown Chicago

The Center on Budget and Policy

Summary:

It is brought up in the article that the American Council on Education had a meeting the following Wednesday.  The stimulus plan is also going to be funding renovation projects.  The California university system is one of the areas gaining funding. Chuck Middleton is the president of Roosevelt University, and he in the article expresses urgency to get the renovations underway.  The center on budget and policy estimates that this stimulus plan could help 3.8 million college students.

Audience and agenda:

Fox News is a news organization that gives a right wing slant on the stories that they report.  The audience that they tend to draw towards is the average middle class person looking for news on current events.  The motto of Fox News is to bring viewer fair and balanced news coverage.

Usefulness:

This articles shows the reader how much of this new stimulus bill is being given to Pell Grant recipients.  It shows Obama succeeding in his campaign promise to increase funding for Pell Grants. So. what happens when the funds are gone? That was the question asked to Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education, in an NPR interview on Feburary 4th.  His response was basically to keep lobbying for more funding.

Work Cited

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100249947&ft=1&f=1012

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