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Should PHEAA be abolished?

During the pass 55 years, the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency has been awarding public taxpayer funds to students with financial need, based on family income, to attend a community college, a public four-year university or a private higher education institution of their choice.

In addition to awarding grants of public money, PHEAA how makes loans to Pennsylvania students. When was the last time a private college warded a grant or made a loan to a needy student attending a community college or a public college from its scholarship endowment funds?

This just doesn’t happen. Unfortunately, we have been told repeatedly that the private sector does things better than the public sector.

However, too many times private organizations look to the government trough for a handout whenever a financial need arises.

In my view, PHEAA should be abolished and all that state funding for higher education should go directly to the community colleges and public four-year universities, and let them determine financial need (grants and/or loans) for their students.

This should actually increase the amount of public funds available to needy students and lower the cost of attending those public institutions.

Should PHEAA be abolished?

Yes.

David Faust

Selinsgrove

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