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White house plans huge cuts to higher Ed.(higher education)
President Bush's spending plan for 2007 left educators and students high and dry. The $54.4 billion in discretionary appropriations for the Department of Education is down 5.5% from the 2006 budget.
In his plan, the maximum Pell Grant would remain at $4,050 for the fifth year in a row. For the second year in a row, the president is asking Congress to eliminate the Perkins Loan Program and require colleges to return the federal share of the money they use to make new Perkins loans for students from low- and middle-income families.
Bush also wants to end the Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnerships program, which matches each dollar that states give to need-based aid. The plan also calls ...
- COLLEGES FACING FUNDING CRISIS HUGE CUTS LOOM AS LAWMAKERS WORK ON BUDGET.(City...
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) January 18, 2003 700+ words
...they've done until Monday, and higher education officials are afraid they face some big...of the Colorado Commission on Higher Education. But budget committee staffers have...316 million be slashed from higher education's funding - a 42 percent cut the schools...
- The Money hole With a 300m shortfall in budgets, Scottish public spending faces...
- Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald TOM GORDON September 13, 2009 700+ words
...salaries and jobs are obvious targets. Around 70% of council spending is statutorily protected: police and fire boards, education and social work. Ministers have also signaled they won't cut free care for the elderly, or end the freeze on council tax...
- Michigan's Balanced Budget Avoids Huge Cuts.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News March 7, 2003 700+ words
...groups about the looming budget deficit. That consensus, she said, was to spare K-12 education from cuts, but not universities. "Higher education is not as critical as making sure a child is ready to go to college in the first place...
- University of the District of Columbia: truncated, but still alive.(huge cuts...
- Magazine article from: Black Issues in Higher Education December 26, 1996 700+ words
...of the university and its effectiveness in providing higher education. We expect that we would in our report make major recommendations...altering the structure of how the university provides both the education and the management structure that exists." The review...
- SCHOOL TESTS TO FACE HUGE CUTS.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) February 16, 2004 700+ words
...Political Editor THE number of tests taken by pupils is to be slashed to ease the risk of exam burn-out for sixth-formers. Education Secretary Charles Clarke will this week order the reduction as the first step towards replacing A-levels, AS-levels and...
- OOVer and out. (NATO, Warsaw Treaty Organization sign pact making huge cuts in...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) November 24, 1990 700+ words
...November 19th leaders of the 22 countries of NATO and the Warsaw pact signed an immensely complicated treaty that will make huge cuts in the number of conventional weapons in Europe. The accord sets limits on tanks, lesser armoured combat vehicles, artillery...
- Huge Cuts In Missile Defense Could Hit Working Programs, Officials Say.
- Newspaper article from: Defense Daily October 21, 2008 700+ words
By Dave Ahearn Slashing $1 billion out of ballistic missile defense, with cuts aimed at programs that kill enemy missiles in their most vulnerable phase of flight, would knock out the balance in the overall missile defense shield guarding the United States from attack, according to officials. So
- Huge cuts watered down in debate.
- Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England) March 13, 2001 700+ words
Byline: LOUISE GRIFFERTY CONTROVERSIAL cost cutting measures in the budget were changed and modified during the stormy meeting of the full council. The cash-strapped authority had been expected to rubber stamp a raft of changes in a bid to stem a predicted pounds 18.5 million deficit. This included
