House of Paine

how they gonna grant uncle's poor kid merit grants

attention all 18 thousand amerikan high schools 

your scam 
just got tougher....

maybe ....




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" for the first time 
the federal government
 will rate the academic rigor 
of the nation's 18,000 high schools"

The measure, backed by the Bush administration and expected to pass the House when it returns next month, would provide ...
 $750 to $1,300 grants
 to low-income college freshmen 
and sophomores who have completed 
'a rigorous secondary school program of study' " 


 "the secretary of education will define 'rigorous' "







" The ED department will have $790 million
 in new grant money to distribute 
to college-bound students this fall"

 
" estimates :  more than 500,000 students
      will receive grants".

-but from what high schools???

answer..... "the rigorous ones" -------------

 

"the legislation will unleash 
a scramble by high schools 
to gain recognition 
of their curricula as rigorous"






"The legislation is modeled on 
the Texas Scholars program"

" begun during Mr. Bush's governorship"


 

"rigorous course of study," 

" four years of English;
 three and a half years of social studies;
 two years of foreign language;
 and a year each 
of algebra,
 geometry, 
advanced algebra, 
biology,
 chemistry 
and physics"
.
"The new one-year grants,
 designed to supplement the broader,
 $13 billion Pell Grant program, 
range from $750 for low-income college freshmen
 and $1,300 for sophomores 
to $4,000 for juniors and seniors 
who are pursuing majors
 in the physical, life or computer sciences,
 mathematics, technology, engineering
 or certain foreign languages"

" Applicants must have a 3.0 grade point average
 to be eligible as sophomores, 
juniors and seniors"

"Pell Grants have been based on financial need, 
but eligibility for the new grants is more complicated"





----------- one idea track em to a different diploma...
a hyper kool diploma brand em for life asc tip top ---------


--------------over 30 states so far haven't taken
 the  full pell bait ---------------


-what if thoudans of high schoolsdon't make the cut ---------

 

------then there's this horror  -----------


"The bill "would inadvertently exclude 
over 5.3 million private K-12 school students," 

-------- also-----------------

" parochial and home-schooled students"

may it ain't a sure bet ...errrr as is