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  • Obama poised to give financial aid to federal, state prisoners

    07/27/2015 2:13:26 PM PDT · by GIdget2004 · 30 replies
    Politico ^ | 07/27/2015 | Allie Grasgreen
    More prisoners may soon have access to federal subsidies to pay for college under a new Obama administration initiative, ending a 20-year ban on Pell grants for state and federal prisoners. The move could come as soon as this week. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Attorney General Loretta Lynch are scheduled to visit Goucher College’s Prison Education Partnership at the Maryland Correctional Institution in Jessup on Friday, to make “an important announcement related to federal aid.” On Monday, Duncan said that restoring Pell eligibility for those potential students is one way his agency hopes to increase college affordability. “We’ll have...