Education

The FAFSA Change Behind Colleges’ Pell Progress

From Inside Higher Education: “Congress overhauled the formula determining Pell eligibility as part of the law making over the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. That revised formula was meant to expand eligibility to a much wider share of low- and middle-income families, as well as open the grant to incarcerated students, who were previously blocked from participating. According to the Education Department, that effort paid off to the tune of 560,000 more Pell-eligible students—a 7 percent increase from 2023–24 and nearly twice the number predicted in a report from the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association last October.”

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