Committee creates new legislation for improving education

By: Antho­ny Zepperi 
Octo­ber 30, 2019
The Dai­ly Campus

The Col­lege Afford­abil­i­ty Act, passed by the Com­mit­tee on Edu­ca­tion and Labor, was cre­at­ed to help improve the qual­i­ty of edu­ca­tion for stu­dents by low­er­ing costs of col­lege, improv­ing the qual­i­ty of high­er edu­ca­tion and expand­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for stu­dents of all back­grounds, accord­ing to the committee’s website. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pell Grants are award­ed to stu­dents through finan­cial needs, accord­ing to the committee’s web­site. Stu­dents who attend post-sec­ondary schools such as uni­ver­si­ties, col­leges, trade schools and oth­er train­ing pro­grams are eli­gi­ble for these grants. 

Unlike oth­er fed­er­al finan­cial aid pro­grams, Pell Grants do not have to be repaid, which is an added ben­e­fit to them, accord­ing to the committee’s website. 

Com­mit­tee Chair­man Bob­by Scott said in a press release that this new act can give stu­dents the oppor­tu­ni­ty to receive more mon­ey than they spend. 

“The Col­lege Afford­abil­i­ty Act is a respon­si­ble, com­pre­hen­sive over­haul of our high­er edu­ca­tion sys­tem that would mean stu­dents can spend less and earn more,” Scott said. 

Ronald Schurin, a Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut polit­i­cal sci­ence pro­fes­sor and Mans­field town coun­cil­man said that this new Col­lege Afford­abil­i­ty Act can be ben­e­fi­cial for students. 

“It ben­e­fits all of soci­ety to have peo­ple edu­cat­ed to the max­i­mum,” Schurin said. “The more edu­cat­ed stu­dents are, the more pro­duc­tive they become.” 

For more infor­ma­tion about this new Col­lege Afford­abil­i­ty Act, stu­dents can go to the committee’s website.