Budget Deal That Averted a Federal Shutdown Largely Spares Education, Obama Says

Here is an article from the Chronicle that talks about the new budget plan and Education...and it talks about Pell Grants and their funding for this coming year (yes!). I helped push for th U of I (at my job) to send out a nationwide alert on Pell Grants, which we did last week, and we included Research funding. It went out to all alumni around the country and we had over 3,100 emails sent through our system to US Legislators asking them to support Pell Grant funding and Research for universities. Too bad it took them so long to decide if they wanted to push these issues, I think we could have had more people respond (some legislators were flooded with emails, especially in IL). But there is funding. If anyone has looked at President Obama's website (The White House) and his education plan, there is definitely a lot of work to be done to reach his goal. Hopefully Education will remain high on the priority list. Pell Grants - Education Spared