Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California has proposed phasing out the state’s main student-aid program, a move that would eliminate grants for more than 100,000 students each year and would mark a historic downgrading in the affordability of California’s colleges and universities… Student-aid advocates in California were at a loss for words to describe the potential effect of losing the student-aid program, which was started in 1956. "It’s devastating, it’s stunning, it’s mind-boggling the impact that this would have," said Edie Irons, a spokeswoman for the Institute for College Access & Success. "It’s hundreds of thousands of students that would be affected, and it would just ripple across the state."

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by Josh Keller, The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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