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Congresswoman Pelosi visits students at San Francisco's Martin Luther King, Jr. Academic Middle School to discuss education funding in the Recovery Act and funding for SF Promise. |
Education is the cornerstone to building America’s future. I believe we must make a national commitment to education by strengthening our schools, fully funding special education, and modernizing our classrooms. At the same time, we must work to reduce class size, put in place the means for students to attain higher education, and make sure that we have the best trained, most qualified teachers in the world. I am committed to providing high quality education to all of America’s students, creating a nation ready for the challenges of the 21st century.
In September 2009, the House passed the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act -- the single largest investment in aid to help students and families pay for college in history -- at no cost to taxpayers. The President signed the bill into law on March 30, 2010. Among its many provisions, it increases the maximum Pell Grant from $5,350 in 2009 to $5,550 in 2010 and $6,900 in 2019 and keeps interest rates low on subsidized federal student loans.
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