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of education ?
Everyone seems to agree that financial relief for
middle-income families struggling with the rising costs
of college is long overdue The question is how to achieve
it.
President Carter not only opposes tuition tax credits
for private education, he opposes them for college tuition
as well
Instead, the president has proposed raising funding
levels of the three primary student aid programs and the
applicable income levels to provide relief.
The president's plans would make the average family
earning between $16,000 and $25,000 annually, with one
child entering college, eligible for a flat $250 tuition
grant Additionally, work-study and guaranteed student
loan programs funds would be increased to include
families with adjusted gross annual incomes of up to
$45,000.
Of the two plans, which one do college financial aid
directors favor?
Governor Jackson, Texas Woman's University acting
financial aid director, favors expansion of existing
student aid programs for two reasons: They "more
effectively deliver assistance" and they make “more aid
available to students.”
“A maximum of $500 is a very small part of what it
costs to go to school in a calendar year," he said. “That
barely covers the tuition for a semester. Also, you're
talking about family relief after the fact with a tuition
tax credit. If you’re in a financial bind at the time. I don't
see how you’ll realize anything from it.”
The “tremendous difference” in the coets of the two
plans is also a factor in Jackson’s preference for ex-
ponded student aid.
“With expansion of the existing programs, it isn't gift
aid. For example, with the work-study program,
students perform a service at the institutions,” he said
“With a tax credit, you’re going to have to pay for it
some way, either by cutting off services in another area
or through some kind of tax."
Jackson estimates his office would process ap-
proximately 300 percent more applications than it does
now if aid programs were expanded, but he believes “the
means justify the ends,” altnough some institutions
would need staff expansions and more automation.
Melvin Gouge, North Texas State University financial
aid director, agrees with Jackson that "$250 or 1500”
would likely do little toward easing the middle-class
financial burden.
“For a resident student, it now costs around $2,830 a
year to attend NT; it will be around 03,150 next year,” he
said. "How much that would help toward the total cost of
education. I’m not sure."
Gouge also finds tuition tax credits “somewhat in-
flationary. If there weren’t any qualifications, anybody
could get a tax benefit whether they needed it or not."
While he lauds attempts to help “the middle-income
group ... the people who have been getting hurt,”
Gouge foresees potential difficulties in administering
expanded aid programs.
“If there were increases in the work-study program,
we would see a substantial increase in the number of
applications we have," he said. “Just in the Basic
Education Opportunity Grants program, I anticipate
that if Carter’s proposal was passed, the number of
applications would jump from around 2,000 to 10,000."
“The institutions couldn’t handle” such a jump in
applications, Gouge maintains, without additional ad-
ministrative fundi g. “That’s not just NT; I'm talking
about all institutions. The ideal situation would be for the
government to give us an administrative allowance.”
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Educators argue effects of credits
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Like Dr McGee. Mrs Cantrell feels tax-
payers have no obligation to support private
education
"I don't feel I have an obligation to support
private education." she said. "If you want to
buy a Cadillac, that's fine; I don't feel I have
to even indirectly provide you with it They
have a choice to make about where they're
going to send their children to school, but 1
don't feel I have to help provide them with
that choice."
However, Doncaster believes "parents
should have the choice of private education.’'
and that any measure which "helps parents in
the education of their children is a good
thing.”
Doncaster refutes the argument that
taxpayers would be subsidizing private
education through tax credits by pointing out
that parents who send their children to
private schools "in fact pay twice — tuition
and taxes."
"Overreaction" is how the headmaster
describes predictions of public educations
death if tax credits are enacted
"I don't think that'sgoing to happen at all."
he said "It would only provide $500 at the
most; to educate a student in private school,
even with a credit, people are still going to
have to shell out a great deal of money."
Doncaster sees public and private schools
as partners, not adversaries, in the
educational process.
"When all is said and done, public schools
are more powerful," he said. "I see public
and private institutions complementing one
another, nor fighting each other. Here in
Denton we have an excellent working
relationship with the public schools."
Part of this relationship. Doncaster
believes, is the "burden" private schools
relieve the public schools of
"In terms of the public good, private
schools take the burden off public schools."
he said. "In a city like San Antonio, which has
a lot of Catholic schools, if you turned those
children loose into the public school system,
they couldn't handle it."
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The next round will likely occur Tuesday,
with attempts to include a tuition tax credit
provision in the House's education budget
resolution
Should that happen, and should a tuition tax
credit proposal eventually become lew, the
fight will be far from over.
McGee said he “can't imagine" that public
education groups would choose not to
challenge the constitutionality of any such
legislation in tho courts.
As one Texas State Teachers Association
officisl put it. "If it (becomes law), then
we've got to go to the courts, because this
thing is unconstitutional. If it ever takes ef-
fect, public education is gone " g
4 man you can be proud of
"I believe a legislator
should be more than a
politician "
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The Cool, Crisp Look For Spring
State
University Police Capt.
Robbie Robinson has con-
firmed a statement issued by
the university's public in-
formation office that
evidence indicates Dee
Marie Fishell was at-
tempting to take her own life
Wednesday when she fell
from a seventh-story window
at Kerr Hall
Robinson said yesterday
that he could confirm a
report from the PIO stating
that “the campus police
have finisbed their in-
vestigation. and evidence
indicates she (Miss Fishell)
was trying to take her life.”
Miss Fishell, 18, was
transferred Friday at 3 p.m.
to the intensive care unit at
St. Paul Hospital in Dallas
“because of her extreme
critical condition and
possible neurological
damage, " the PIO statement
said.
She remained in the in-
tensive care unit in critical
condition yesterday af-
ternoon. according to a
hospital spokesman.
Miss Fishell fell from a
window of a television lounge
in the dormitory at about
12:30 p.m. Wednesday,
according to police reports.
She sustained massive
injuries including a frac-
lured spinal column, internal
injuries, brain damage and
multiple fractures, reports
indicated.
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