Oh, right

I guess I should note that I didn't pick up on this from the text of the bill. The David Wasserman's RISE scholarship is for folks denied financial aid on account of drug use and such.

The 1965 Higher Education Act was passed to increase access to higher education through federal loans and grants, but the Aid Eliminaton Provision passed in 1998 denied applicants financial aid for one year if charged with drug possession and two years if charged with a drug sale, Wasserman said.

Charged, you say? No conviction necessary? That's tough. Real tough. Almost seems unconstitutional. Or, you know, maybe the reporter just fucked up on reporting, despite how obviously wrong that description is. Picking up on that requires critical thinking, which is really too much to ask from a reporter or editor.

posted by Beetle Aurora Drake 1/24/2007 09:06:00 AM #
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Beetle,

The reporter came up to me on Wednesday night and told me that she messed up and meant to write "convicted," not "charged" and that the DailyCal would be writing a correction.

# posted by  Anonymous : 10:43 AM, January 26, 2007

 

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