Robbing Perkins to Pay for Pell?
By Charles Dervarics
Education advocates are expressing growing concern about reports that the Bush administration may dismantle a popular vocational/technical education program to shore up the fiscally ailing Pell Grant program.
While administration officials will not comment on the idea, advocacy groups are mobilizing to stop cuts in the Carl Perkins Act, which supports technical, vocational and career education programs at the K-12 and higher education levels. Formulas vary, though many states devote about one-third of their Perkins dollars to postsecondary institutions.
