U.S. Department of Education Budget
Summary: President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on February 17th. This bill will bring $98,238,000 in funding to the Department of Education, $15,640,000 of that money going towards raising Pell Grant award.
Topic: Pell Grants
Category: Institutional (Government)
What is it: spreadsheet
Public info: US Department of Education, 2/23/09
Author: none given (US Department of Education)
Location: http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/news.html#FY2009action
Accessed: 2/23/09
Support:
Amounts provided to the Education Department (Table)
State tables
Summary:
The first table shows how much money will be given to the Department from the ARRA that was just passed. A table of how the money will be allocated to each state is given also. Oregon will be receiving $279,413,147 in funding for pell grants, that is a $81,203,754 increase from 2008.
Audience and agenda
The Department of Education is the governmental body in charge of the United States education system. This website is intended to bring up to the date news on policy decisions made regarding education.
Usefulness
The State analysis really helped me put into perspective how much money the State of Oregon is going to get to increase pell grant awards. A majority of the funding went states with bigger urban areas such as New York, and California. Hopefully the students that really need the financial aid get pell grant awards. The question now is, what will happen to keep funding on track with the rising cost of tutition?
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