Some scholarship organizations
allow scholarship recipients to attend only specified religious schools.
Many critics also oppose
allowing scholarship recipients to attend private religious schools, claiming it is a violation of the separation between church and state.
Not exact matches
The
scholarship recipient will receive a $ 15,000 grant that
allows them to attend WFF's Annual Leadership Development Conference and Executive Summit, in addition to the Kellogg School of Management campus sessions.
[A] mounts paid or
allowed to, or on behalf of, an individual to enable him to pursue studies or research are considered to be amounts received as a
scholarship or fellowship grant for the purpose of section 117 if the primary purpose of the studies or research is to further the education and training of the
recipient in his individual capacity and the amount provided by the grantor for such purpose does not represent compensation or payment for the services described in subparagraph (1) of this paragraph.
Wide participation entails avoiding overly restrictive eligibility requirements for
scholarship recipients and
allowing the
scholarship organizations to award
scholarships that are large enough for low - income families to afford tuition.
The nonpartisan Pennsylvania Legislative Budget and Finance Committee reported in 2010 that the average
scholarship recipient's family earned only $ 29,000 annually, less than half what the program
allowed at the time.
Earlier, the Senate Education Committee considered a bill that would
allow siblings of current Choice
Scholarship recipients to qualify for a voucher without first attending public school.
The new rules preserve that requirement for most families, but would
allow two groups — special needs students and siblings of current voucher
recipients — to receive a
scholarship without attending public school first.
Although proponents insist that most
recipients of the
scholarships will be low and middle income, the proposal
allows for
scholarship money to go to families making as much as $ 300,000 a year.
«The Iowa Financial Know - How Challenge
allowed me to expand upon what my high school has already taught me about college spending,» said Regan Sylvester, a senior at Sioux Central High School and one of the 30
recipients of this year's
scholarship.
In 2010 she was the
recipient of an Academic Excellence
Scholarship, followed by a 2011 - 2015 FPU Fellowship (Training program for Academic Staff) from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport,
allowing her to pursue her doctoral studies.
In 2010 she was the
recipient of an Academic Excellence
Scholarship, followed by a 2011 - 2015 FPU Fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport,
allowing her to pursue her doctoral studies.