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Bush also wants to expand Pell Grants--federal grants to financial aid students--and has proposed "education savings accounts" through which parents would be given a $5,000 each year to save for their children's tuition...
...Basically the Gore higher ed proposals are same as the Clinton agenda--a strong focus on making more loans and scholarships available particularly to the middle class and high scoring students, a modest increase in aid for poor students, and a continued support for affirmative action," Orfield wrote in an e-mail message...
Continued support for student aid access is a "top priority on any list," he says, emphasizing the importance Harvard places on its need-based financial aid program...
Student financial aid, meanwhile, is becoming increasingly "short-sighted," Stewart says...
...what he calls the "old days"--the late 1960s and early 1970s--financial aid was primarily for the poor. But as schools have become more competitive in the last decade, financial aid has become less and less of a tool to promote equality, he says...