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Efforts at reforming financial aid for students is stripped from Higher Education Act Refrom Bill

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

From Students for A Sensible Drug Policy August 13, 2008 Despite all of our efforts we were not able to secure full repeal of, or even provide judicial discretion for, the aid elimination penalty for drug offenses in the HEA reauthorization bill. Even though Congressional leadership made a pledge to us at the beginning of 2006 that they would tackle the aid penalty in the reauthorization bill, they were not able to muster enough votes, support, wherewithal (or whatever else you want to call it) to actually make it happen. Anyway, despite that Congress failed to adequately address the concerns of our hundreds of prominent organizations that called for repeal of the penalty, there was a little bit of good language in the HEA reauthorization bill...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 13, 2008 (boomark / email).