Written for The Texas Observer legislative blog "Floor Pass."
Texas Grants, the state’s main college aid program, could give priority to transfers from community colleges if some higher ed leaders have their way. The Legislature cut funding for Texas Grants in 2011 (along with just about everything else), and Higher Education Commissioner Raymund Paredes recently told lawmakers that the program needs big changes, and more money, if it’s going to survive. Paredes has already asked universities to give out smaller grants—to partially cover more students—and this fall, for the first time, new rules will give priority treatment to students with good grades and higher test scores. Read more.