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This just came in from Santa Ana / Anaheim assemblyman Jose Solorio, and it looks like it could be an important reminder for our readers who are college students or just entering college:
ASSEMBLYMAN SOLORIO REMINDS STUDENTS OF UPCOMING FINANICAL AID DEADLINE
Key Deadline to Apply for Financial Aid and Cal Grants is March 2, 2011
ANAHEIM, CA – State Assemblyman Jose Solorio (D-Anaheim) is reminding students about an important upcoming deadline for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
“With tuition and related fees on the rise, many students and their families find college to be very expensive,” Solorio says. “However, there are many programs available to help families obtain the support they need, and they all require an accurate FAFSA application. The deadline to file a FAFSA application is March 2, so I am encouraging students to start working on it now.”
The FAFSA is the form the U.S. Department of Education requires to determine eligibility for federal, state, and college-sponsored financial aid, including grants, educational loans, and work-study programs. The FAFSA application is used to apply for the Federal Pell Grant and the State’s Cal Grant Program.
A Federal Pell Grant, unlike a loan, does not need to be repaid. The amount a student receives is dependent on financial need, the cost to attend school, status as a full-time or part-time student, and plans to attend school for a full academic year or less.
Students may also be eligible to receive a Cal Grant from the State. Like a Federal Pell Grant, a Cal Grant does not need to be repaid. With a Cal Grant, a student can receive up to $11,124 a year to pay for college expenses at any qualifying California college, university, career or technical school. For more information on Cal Grants, visit www.calgrants.org.
Information on FAFSA can be found at www.fafsa.ed.gov. The deadline to apply for financial aid, including the Cal Grant, is March 2, 2011.
Affordable education is one of Assemblyman Solorio’s top priorities in the Legislature. He supports efforts to extend educational and college opportunities to everyone, and works to ensure that financial aid for students is protected.
State Assemblyman Jose Solorio is the Chair of the Assembly Insurance Committee and also serves on the Assembly Appropriations and Transportation committees. He represents the Sixty-Ninth Assembly District, which includes the cities of Anaheim, Garden Grove, and Santa Ana. For more information about Assemblyman Solorio, visit www.assembly.ca.gov/solorio.
Schools to Solorio!
You are aware, aren’t you, that your college message falls flat for 1 of 3 Santa Ana students? These are the ones who’ve grown up in Sana Ana, gone to SAUSD school, said the pledge of allegience every morning, dreamed of being a Marine, a doctor, of flying Navy jets at Mach 2, being a teacher, only to find when they graduate they don’t qualify for Pell grants, or Cal grants, they just qualify for deportation to a strange place they’ve only heard stories about.
Schools don’t ask about legal residence, you say. They do, they have to …. when the young “he-or-she- thinks-he-or-she-is-an-American” goes to the high school college counselor to fill out the FAFSA like the rest of his or her friends and classmates … the counselor has to ask, and tell them, “This isn’t for you”. This is from where I get the 1 out of 3.
But the schools say nothing. I don’t hear Solorio saying anything. But I do hear a lot, really a lot on Fox News and others from the right. Listen to Kris Kobach, attorney who authored AZ’s SB1070, new Sec. of State of Kansas, and suing a variety of states to end their allowing ‘in-state tuition” to young students brought into this country as children. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris_Kobach Where’s the voices in opposition?
Kris Kobach (live) on California’s AB540 allowing in-state tuition to our undocumented students who have qualified for college.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFihQVF_ggo&feature=player_embedded
fafsa is extermily hard to get now I am a returning student and FaFsa is becoming racist it askes me question like which country you come from and question like have you been in a radical group even though I am citizen of this country game me Iq test to test my intelegenices. They approve me for Finalcal aid only to later found out I had to pay money for my classes I drop the classes due to finacial issuses and to take care of my family health conditions I still have to pay for tutions fees campus health fees and other. This also find out I will never graduate even in life time cuz Financial aid is crooked and racist.