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Pell Grants will soon help students pay for job training programs

Pell Grants, which provide federal financial aid to low-income college students, are getting a significant expansion this year. A new grant program called Workforce Pell — included in the massive ...
Forbes

Workforce Pell Expands Access To Education, Training, And Opportunity

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Manno writes on education, workforce training, and career pathways. “We just expanded the definition of college,” writes Kathleen ...
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‘Serving adult learners’: California community colleges are expanding short-term career programs

Joanne Scott had been without full-time work for about two decades and was struggling to reenter the workforce. Then she learned this year about a short-term pharmacy technician program at Mt. San ...
Forbes

Workforce Pell Could Be Transformative—If Value Is At The Center

With a focus on the right things during its implementation, Workforce Pell could be transformative for both students and our economy. Earlier this summer, Congress made the most significant change to ...
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$40,000 grant to fund short-term training for EMCC adult education students

2nd Chance MS provides funding for qualified students in Adult Education Launch Pad program ...
WEAU

UW-Stout will create short-term programs to fill region’s high-demand jobs with help from $2 million federal grant

MENOMONIE, Wis. (UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STOUT PRESS RELEASE) - University of Wisconsin-Stout will work closely with Wisconsin businesses to ensure a recently announced $2 million federal grant will ...