Congress Bans Pell Grants for Sex Offenders

Autor/in	Norton, Ingrid
Titel	Congress Bans Pell Grants for Sex Offenders
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 54 (2008) 49, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Federal Aid; Correctional Institutions; Student Financial Aid; Grants; Educational Policy; Sexual Abuse; Criminals; Federal Legislation; Higher Education; Florida + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Jugendstrafvollzug; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Studienfinanzierung; Studienförderung; Grant; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Sexueller Missbrauch; Straftäter; Bundesrecht; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen
Abstract	When Rep. Ric Keller, a Florida Republican, read in the "St. Petersburg Times" in 2003 about a twice-convicted rapist who was receiving Pell Grant money for computer classes, he was appalled. The man, who had served 24 years in prison, had been awarded about $15,000 in Pell Grants since 1999, when he was sentenced to a civil-commitment center intended for sex offenders deemed unready to be set free. Keller, the ranking minority member of the U.S. House of Representatives' higher-education subcommittee, introduced an amendment to legislation to reauthorize the Higher Education Act that would prevent residents of those civil-commitment centers from receiving the grants. After five years in the making, the bill finally cleared Congress in late July, and President Bush is expected to sign it. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10