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Goodwin, Gretta L. – US Government Accountability Office, 2019
Incarcerated students are generally prohibited from receiving Pell grants, which provide need-based federal financial aid to low-income undergraduate students. However, Education has the authority to waive specific statutory or regulatory requirements for providing federal student aid at schools approved to participate in its experiments.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Federal Aid
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Borden, Cindy; Richardson, Penny; Meyer, Stephen J. – Journal of Correctional Education, 2012
In the current economic climate it is more crucial than ever to select federal spending projects that are visionary as well as cost-effective. Saving money today may well cost money tomorrow. Such is the case with correctional education postsecondary programming. Selling vocational or trade-training for offenders to the general public is much…
Descriptors: Academic Degrees, Liberal Arts, Correctional Education, Program Effectiveness
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. Div. of Career Tech. and Adult Learning. – 1996
This annual report for fiscal year 1996 for the Educational Coordinating Council for Correctional Institutions in Maryland provides information on the inmate population, school improvement, technology, correctional education libraries and technology, special education, and the Occupational Skills Training Center. Eleven tables reflect composite…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Correctional Education, High School Equivalency Programs, Higher Education