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An all-time low: Bright Futures projected to drop 80,000 scholarships and cut $347 million by 2017-18

Apr 8, 2014 | News, Research and Policy

The popular student aid program is set to award the smallest number of scholarships to high school graduates in its 17-year history. What happened to Florida’s flagship financial aid program? Find out in this new policy brief by the Florida College Access Network...

Department of Ed reopens civil rights case into Bright Futures

Mar 25, 2014 | News

Yesterday, the Tampa Bay Times and the Miami Herald announced that the US Department of Education had reopened an investigation into the State of Florida’s Bright Futures scholarship program. The investigation, triggered by a complaint filed 12 years ago, is examining...

Scholarship Program Helps Undocumented Students Afford College

Feb 19, 2014 | News

Miami Dade College student Dianeli Mendez is one of the college’s twenty-two recipients of a national scholarship for undocumented college students. First announced on February 11, TheDream.US provides higher education funding for students drawn from the nearly...

All or nothing? Study shows Bright Futures covering 100% tuition more effective at encouraging college completion than partial scholarship

Jan 2, 2013 | News, Research and Policy

By Troy Miller Senior Researcher and Policy Analyst, Florida College Access Network A distinct feature of the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program is its two main tiers. When the program first began in 1997, high school graduates with a 3.0 or higher weighted...

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An all-time low: Bright Futures projected to drop 80,000 scholarships and cut $347 million by 2017-18

Department of Ed reopens civil rights case into Bright Futures

Scholarship Program Helps Undocumented Students Afford College

All or nothing? Study shows Bright Futures covering 100% tuition more effective at encouraging college completion than partial scholarship

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