Board Proposes Major Overhaul of TEXAS Grants Program
TEXAS Grants, the state’s primary need-based financial aid program for college students, could get a major retooling next session if lawmakers follow new recommendations by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
In 2011, the Legislature cut funding for TEXAS Grants for the first time in its history and established a model for distributing the awards that favored high-performing students.
According to the coordinating board, with current levels of funding and award amounts, only about 18 percent of eligible students would be able to receive TEXAS Grants. But with some changes they think they could reach more students, a move ...
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Chris Jonsson
Good old Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Always looking for new ways to short change public education, teachers and students. Fine job. Whats next? Take away all the desks and let them sit on the floor?
audrey fisher
Texans need to pay attention to a story that "amazingly" has not received attention in TX.
Texas Enterprise Fund is losing $$$$ as a 4th bankruptcy was announced in Sept. Who will pay for this loss? Is it another Privatize Profit and Socialize Cost courtesy of the GOP in Texas.
Good news is that nationwide, student's are opting out of the "private education" schools across the nation. The registration rates are down. Whether by social networks or Internet - the privatization of higher education - as wished for by ALEC affiliated groups in TX - such as the Texas Public Policy Foundation and the Acton "school of business" !
Texas student's are realizing that these private enterprises are big on talk and low on real output. So, here's hoping that the Grant Program will finally focus on the real needs of Texas Students and not focus on their ALEC model of privatization of education.