Paul Ryan: Pell Grants Frozen At Current Levels Under New Budget - Joy Resmovits, Huffington Post

Under Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis) "Path to Prosperity" budget framework for 2014, college students would have one less weapon against the creep of climbing college tuitions: Pell Grants would freeze at their current level, with a maximum possible grant of $5,645 per student for the next 10 years. "We see continued cuts to education," said Mary Kusler, who heads government affairs for the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers union. "It goes beyond the sequester cuts." Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, had even harsher words. “The new Republican budget proposal from Rep. Ryan is as unoriginal as it is awful. The Ryan budget is unsound, unrealistic and out-of-touch with the needs of the American people." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/12/paul-ryan-pell-grants_n_2863446.html