BUDGET STALEMATE COSTLY FOR STUDENTS.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer LANCASTER - More than 200 Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. students on state grants have been caught in the state's budget squeeze. The inability of California lawmakers to approve a budget for the fiscal year that began July 1 means an estimated 35,000 community college students - including 211 at Antelope Valley College - won't be able to get their Cal Grant Cal Grant is a financial aid program administrated by the California Student Aid Program in California that provides aid to California undergraduates, vocation training students, and those in teacher certification programs. money. Most of the affected students qualified for a Cal Grant B, which provides the system's lowest income students with $1,551 per year for college expenses. ``Our Cal Grant students are counting on financial aid to be able to pay for their books and supplies, parking fees or bus passes, their student IDs, and all of the other expenses that come with enrolling in college,'' said community colleges Chancellor Thomas J. Nussbaum. ``Some of these students won't have anything to fall back on and it could well result in some of them dropping out.'' College officials have sent letters advising students that they won't receive Cal Grant checks until the budget is signed. Even after the budget is signed, officials expect it will take three to four weeks for the state to authorize payment and for checks to be prepared locally, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Don Mourton, Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley College's vice president of student services. In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , college officials are hoping students can get by without the Cal Grants or rely on other means of financial aid such as Pell Grants The Pell Grant program is a type of post-secondary, educational federal grant program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. It is named after U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell and originally known as the the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant program. or a Board of Governors fee waiver to cover enrollment and materials fees. |
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