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Ending U.S. Grant Program Would Imperil States' Need-Based Student Aid

Chronicle of Higher Education

January 31, 2011

Of all federal higher-education programs, none seems more directly threatened by Congressional budget cutters this year than the Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnership program. But the elimination of LEAP, which helps thousands of students, could threaten the survival of some states' main need-based student-aid programs, which are also facing state budget cuts. And, LEAP's advocates say, the end of the federal program could allow many low- and middle-income students to fall through the cracks of student-aid systems.

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