Higher Education

From the U.S. department of education. U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings today announced the award of $30 million to 22 institutions of higher education that were directly impacted by Hurricanes Katrina or Rita. Many of the schools will use their awards to construct or renovate damaged buildings and classrooms, some of which have been housed in temporary trailers. Others will use the funds to offset income lost as a result of enrollment declines, to fund grants for students that would have been covered by lost revenue, or to fund faculty and staff needed to teach and advise students. I think people should care about this because schools are being held in trailers and people who are getting scholarships cannot get them because the money is being used to rebuild the schools. Many people kinda forgot about Katrina and what happened to the schools. Well here it is people the classes are being held in trailers and kids aren't going to school. If you got a scholarship, and a hurricane happened, that scholarship would go away and pay for the damages that it caused.