FinAid Presidential Candidates' Student Aid Proposals Presidential Candidates' Student Aid Proposals This page summarizes the student financial aid proposals of the major presidential candidates. Wk4 File Converter To Excel 2007. Only those proposals listed on the candidate's official web site are included. (Statements made to news media will not be listed because they can potentially be repudiated by a candidate as a misquote or an off-the-cuff remark.

For good coverage of such public statements, see the.) This list is focused only on campaign promises, and not on past support of higher education. This listing is nonpartisan. Candidates are listed in alphabetical order. The name of the candidate is listed to the relevant higher education policy page on the candidate's web sites. For insight into other issues, see.

Aug 24, 2015 U.S. Presidential candidates. The final months of the 2008 presidential election. Which took place in the shadow of the financial crisis after the. Presidential Candidates' Student Aid Proposals. This page summarizes the student financial aid proposals of the major presidential candidates. 2008: Improved.

Candidate Political Party Proposals () Democrat Grant Proposals • Replace the Hope Scholarship and Tuition & Fees Deduction with $3,000 per dependent student College Access refundable tax credit. The income phaseout would increase to $166,000 and be indexed thereafter for inflation. There would be a $12,000 cap for undergraduate and continuing education, and $6,000 cap for graduate education.

Minimum of half-time enrollment required. American Typewriter Dafont Theme here. • Increase maximum Pell Grant by $300/year to $6,300 in 2011-12.

• Establish early Pell Grant Commitment Demonstration Program in four states to commit to Pell Grant funding to 8th graders. This program would be implemented by granting automatic zero EFC to up to 10,000 students in each of two cohorts who qualify for free or reduced school lunch. Democrat Grant Proposals • Replace the Hope Scholarship with a partially refundable $3,500 tuition tax credit (100% first $1,000, 50% next $5,000).

The credit would be 'advanceable'. • Increase the maximum Pell Grant. Would maintain value of the Pell Grant by annually adjusting it to take account of rising college costs. • Provide $500 million to community colleges and $250 million to four-year colleges in the form of incentive grants to increase graduation rates. • Double the Segal Education Award to $10,000 for AmeriCorps. Loan Proposals • Replace FFELP with 100% Direct Lending.

Fixing the Student Loan Crunch • Expedite school certification for the Direct Loan program. • Allow parents with a recent foreclosure to remain eligible for the Parent PLUS loan. • Endorses the lender-of-last-resort program, with the addition of college-wide implementation (as opposed to student-by-student) and the US Department of Education advancing funds to guarantee agencies to make federal education loans.