April 26, 2005

College prep funds face cuts

The Bush administration has proposed eliminating funding for Upward Bound, a federal program that helps prepare teens for college. It is one of 48 programs in the U.S. Department of Education that the President wants to terminate. \"What you will end up having is a bunch of kids who don\'t have options, don\'t have hope,\" said William Tandy, director of the Upward Bound program at Wayne State. The U.S. Department of Education maintains that the program has not demonstrated that former Upward Bound students are achieving at higher levels than other students.

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