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Fix to GI Bill will help veterans at private colleges in California

Los Angeles Times

August 5, 2009

Military veterans who want to attend private colleges and universities in California have won an important victory. Because of a much-protested technicality in its wording, a new GI Bill previously would have awarded no tuition aid to those veterans. Under an agreement between the state and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the bulk of fees in California now will be counted as tuition.

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