The Cheese Numero Uno: Bringing you up to speed on student finance news with an old fashioned the good, the bad, and the ugly.
To get you up to date on student finance in the news lately we turned to a little old-fashioned The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
The Good: Earlier this month, for the first time in a decade, the House and the Senate (see video for a refresher) reauthorized the Higher Education Act HR+ 4137.
This is good news for you. Why, you ask? Here it is:
1. Easier FAFSA form—big win
2. Greater transparency into college expenses
3. States forced increase education spending
4. Colleges required to give info on the cost of textbooks
5. And the big money… Pell Grants are to be raised from $4,800 to $6000 in 2009 and up to $8000 by 2014 students can receive Pell Grants yearly, as opposed to just for the current term.
David Blake






