ABSTRACT
The basic grants program pays up to half of an undergraduate's educational costs remaining after subtraction of the expected family contribution for the year. Since passage of the 1972 amendments, staff of the House Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education and the Senate Subcommittee on Education have been involved in extensive negotiations with Office of Education (OE) over which assets must be included in calculating the expected family contribution. The Title I Board Chairman, having received a fair number of requests from appellants for extensions of the 30-day time period, attempted to accommodate the appellants if the request appeared reasonable. Higher education grant programs were not the only source of congressional frustration with OE in the early 1970s. The Senate version of the 1978 Education Amendments included an amendment authorizing the commissioner of education to make grants and contracts for the provision of law-related education designed to equip nonlawyers with knowledge and skills pertaining to the legal system.
