K12> Pell Grants - Bush's FY2005 budget - NDIAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS INITIATIVES

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The Washington Post reports that President Bush has renewed his proposal to
cut funding for Pell Grants, which provide financial aid to needy college
students. His budget plan would take money from the Pell Grant program and
abolish the Perkins vocational education program to put more than $1 billion 
annually
into new programs to encourage technical studies. In addition, the President
would limit the number of years in which low-income students can receive Pell
Grants to eight years for a four-year degree and four years for a two-year
degree. (See, " Bush Endorses Testing Of 12th-Grade Students.")
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55871-2004Apr6.html

At the same time, while Bush's FY2005 budget proposal sets aside little new
money for student aid, it does add $45 million for a once-obscure Texas program
called State Scholars, for students who take rigorous courses. Under the
proposal, 36,000 financially needy students who participate in the State
Scholars program would get up to $1,000 in extra Pell Grant money. (The current 
annual
maximum Pell Grant is $4,050, an amount that hasn't changed in two years.)
http://www.centerforstatescholars.org/

INDIAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS INITIATIVES
As part of the FCC's Indian Telecommunications Initiatives program (ITI),
and in cooperation with the National Tribal Telecommunications Association,
an organization of Tribally-owned, operated and regulated telephone
companies, the FCC will host its second Regional Workshop and Roundtable on
May 26 and 27 at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in downtown Rapid City,
SD.  The event is free of charge to registrants.  Tribal leaders and
representatives, planning and economic development managers are encouraged
to attend.  ITI Rapid City is designed to increase the understanding of
essential telecommunications issues and policies affecting Indian Country
and to increase the intergovernmental consultation with American Indian
Tribes and Alaska Native Villages on telecommunications issues and
policies.  Issues important to telecommunications deployment on tribal
lands will be examined.  Subjects addressed will also highlight
opportunities for increased economic growth, consumer choice, and homeland
security planning.  The event will build upon the successes of the FCC's
first ITI Regional Workshop and Roundtable, held in Reno, Nevada, in July
2003 and attended by over 100 representatives of 28 Tribes from North
Carolina to Alaska.  With ITI Rapid City, the FCC seeks to promote and
encourage increased substantive dialogue to further working relationships
with Tribal governments, Tribal organizations, and the telecommunications
industry.
[SOURCE: FCC]
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-04-979A1.pdf

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