Pell Grants

Senate to consider $7 billion increase for education and health programs after rejecting bid to add $6.3 billion for Pell and voc ed.

Educators consider how to make high schools more rigorous so low-income students can qualify for new federal grants for college.

House appropriations bill calls for $100 Pell Grant increase and level funding for programs White House proposed cutting.

Appropriations Committee adopts $100 increase in the maximum Pell Grant award; flat funding for biomedical research is intact.

State block grants, restructured tax credit centerpieces of a proposal aimed at increasing access to college.

Commenting on U.S. rules for 2 new student aid programs, college groups cite several major flaws.

Federal advisory panel hears testimony on a range of topics relating to college access and affordability.

There is no contest: By far, college officials' favorite element of the final report of the Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education is its clarion call for a major expansion of need-based financial aid, specifically in the form of a huge influx of funds into the federal Pell Grant Program.

Decline in key program for poor is among worrisome aid trends in annual survey on college costs, which again outpace inflation.

A partisan pollster said that young voters think Democrats can better confront the college affordability crunch.