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Blog February 24, 2006 Maryland Delegate Introduces Bill to Ease State Aid for Students Affected by Federal Drug Provision Maryland Delegate Ana Sol Gutierrez (D-Montgomery County) has introduced a bill in the Maryland General Assembly designed to make it easier for students who lost federal financial under the Higher Education Act's (HEA) drug provision to obtain financial assistance through state programs. DETAILS February 10, 2006 States, Colleges Block Financial Aid to Students with Drug Convictions Even When They Don't Have To. Thousands of college students with drug convictions could be receiving financial aid from their states even though federal law bars them from obtaining federal assistance, a study released this week has found. DETAILS Florida Pain Patient Appeals Drug Trafficking Sentence Amidst Media Glare. ------------------------------------ February 8, 2006 From StoptheDrugWar.org; The Drug Reform Coordination Network: Dear friend of DRCNet, I am pleased to announce the release of our first major report, "Falling Through the Cracks: Loss of State-Based Financial Aid Eligibility for Students Affected by the Federal Higher Education Act Drug Provision," published under the auspices of the Coalition for Higher Education Act Reform (CHEAR), a group DRCNet founded and has coordinated since April 1999. "Falling Through the Cracks" comes out at the same time as Congress approves a rare rollback of a federal drug law, the restricting of the HEA drug provision to people who were already in school at the time they commited their offenses, as we reported in Drug War Chronicle this week. The report shines a light on a previously unreported consequence of the federal Higher Education Act drug provision, the loss of state financial aid as well to students losing federal aid because of drug convictions even though the legislatures of their states have never voted on that policy. Click here or on the link in the first paragraph above to read it! Press coverage so far has included a really nice piece in yesterday's USA Today, as well as a mention in an Associated Press story, radio coverage by the show Democracy Now, and more on the way. The AP article features Clarkson Reed, a DRCNet supporter who got in touch with us when we held our Perry Fund reception in Seattle last June and offered to tell his story. This report is the first step in an expansion of DRCNet's scope as we make our way through 2006. Along with taking HEA to the state level, we plan to use our coalition approach to organizing around other federal and state drug laws too. More on this to come in future bulletins. Please make a donation today to support this and other work of our organization -- grants are only part of our funding, donations from members are extremely important too -- we can't do it without you. Donations to DRCNet Foundation to support our educational work are tax-deductible, and can made online or sent to: DRCNet, P.O. Box 18402, Washington, DC 20036. Donations to support our lobbying work can be made to Drug Reform Coordination Network, and are not deductible. Contact us if you would like instructions on donating stock. Thank you for being a part of our organization. Please feel free to send a note and let us know what you think about our report or any other aspect of our work -- I hope to hear from you. Sincerely, David Borden, Executive Director ------------------------------------ February 3, 2006
HEA Reform: Congress Passes Partial Reform to Law Barring Financial Aid to Students with Drug Convictions
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