Reforming student aid. A lengthy policy brief released today outlines more than 30 recommendations for reforming the federal student financial aid system, including the elimination of tuition tax breaks—something Education Sector talked about last year. (New America Foundation)

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Providing tuition aid for those who don’t truly need it. Richard Kahlenberg calls tuition tax breaks “food stamps for the relatively wealthy” and encourages Congress, like Education Sector’s Steve Burd, to allow the tax breaks to expire, in favor of diverting that money to truly needy students, like Pell Grant recipients. If you haven’t read Burd’s most recent report, which shows that upper-midContinue Reading »

In his State of the Union address in January, President Obama called on Congress to make the American Opportunity Tax Credit (AOTC) permanent, saying that his proposal would save “millions of middle-class families thousands of dollars” off of the cost of sending their kids to college. What he didn’t say was that the primary beneficiaries of his tuition tax credit program are actually much farthContinue Reading »