Sentences with phrase «expanded tuition assistance program»

So they are asking the legislature to increase aid to SUNY and CUNY schools and also expand the tuition assistance program, which provides grants to students to help cover the cost of classes.

Both seek to expand the Tuition Assistance Program.

Not exact matches

A spokesman for the Republican - controlled state Senate said majority members have long supported expanding eligibility for the state's Tuition Assistance Program to help middle - class families.

Cuomo and the Legislature are negotiating a compromise that would also expand the state Tuition Assistance Program that helps not only public college students, but those at private higher education institutions as well.

He does propose to expand financial aid to those college students who are undocumented immigrants, but he proposes no expansions in the state's Tuition Assistance Program, which provides benefits to all students in need.

A statement from GOP spokesman Scott Reif said the plan builds on work from State Sen. Kenneth LaValle, who has worked to expand a program offering tuition assistance to public college and university students.

The talking points attack the Democratic platform of public financing for elections, changes to state abortion law that opponents say would open the door to regulations that could greatly expand the practice's surgical parameters, as well as the Dream Act, which would allow undocumented immigrants to utilize state tuition assistance programs.

Scott Reif, a spokesman for the Republicans, who rule the Senate with the help of a group of breakaway Democrats, said his party had «been fighting for years to expand TAP eligibility,» referring to the tuition assistance program.

The Act would allow undocumented immigrant students to apply for state tuition assistance, expand access to the State's 529 College Savings Program, and create a private scholarship fund available to undocumented students.

The Senate vote likely ends, for this year, the debate on New York's Dream Act, which would have expanded the state's Tuition Assistance Program to include undocumented students.

The New York State Senate rejected the Dream Act, a bill that would have expanded the state's college tuition assistance program to undocumented students.

She has instead sponsored several bills to expand the state's Tuition Assistance Program and other existing streams of financial aid for college students who are citizens.

The plan vastly expands school choice opportunities in PA by creating an Opportunity Scholarship Program, which would provide tuition assistance for eligible students to attend a public or non-public school of their choice.

The Association of Proprietary Colleges (APC) Membership Urges Lawmakers to Support S5891 Presidents and administrators from New York's degree - granting proprietary colleges will visit Albany on Tuesday, May 9 to urge lawmakers to support bill S5891 that expands the Enhanced Tuition Assistance Program (ETA), allowing students attending these institutions to participate in ETA.

New York College Presidents Travel to Albany In Support Of Measure Expanding the Enhanced Tuition Assistance Program