Quick Bush budget question

In addition to freezing the amount of pell grant money college students get, does he aim to eliminate Perkins loans?

Bush and Budget in the same sentence......

and its total bullshit. There isn't that much on higher education though, which is most likely fucked as well.

this is very helpful.

And a double handful of programs would fare far worse, facing outright elimination. These include both of higher education’s Perkins programs — the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act and the Perkins Loan Program for low-income students – and several efforts designed to increase access to college, including two of the TRIO programs for needy students and the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Program, or Gear Up.

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White House officials also noted that the purposes of some of the education programs slated for elimination under the administration’s budget — especially the Perkins job training programs and the Gear Up and TRIO programs designed to help middle- and high-school students prepare to attend college — would be fulfilled by the Education Department’s proposal $1.5 billion to extend No Child Left Behind to high schools.

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As it did last year, the administration has proposed not only wiping out the $65 million the government provided in 2006 to reimburse colleges for canceled loans, but also forcing colleges to return to the U.S. treasury $664 million in “revolving” funds that the institutions use to continue to make new loans. Those actions, together, would effectively end the Perkins program, which the administration says is “ineffective and duplicative” of the two main federal student loan programs.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/02/07/edbudget

... is another scheme to keep the poor from becoming educated.