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California Need-based student aid in jeopardy

San Francisco Chronicle

May 28, 2009

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's draconian plan to phase out the state-funded Cal Grant program for lower-income college students starting this fall has students, schools and financial aid advocates in shock. The governor's proposal, released Tuesday, would eliminate all new Cal Grants, and existing Cal Grant awards would no longer go up to match fee increases at the state's public universities.

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