Yes, the Pell Grants fall under the jurisdiction of the Dept of Education.
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As far as the Chicago public schools. We've discussed this over and over. I told y'all, the low graduation rates and test scores are not because of the system, bad teachers, bad schools. I've seen this first hand when I was in elementary and junior high back in the 70's. I went to school with some of these kids in the public school system. The low graduation rates are due to the kids themselves and parents, most likely a single parent that do not value education from the time the child enters kindergarten. This continues throughout K-12. A lot of these kid have behavior problems. Teachers are constantly trying to control the kids behavior in class. This disrupts learning. A lot of these kids I feel had some sort of PTSD from all of the violence and death they see the moment they come out of the womb. My mother checked my homework and made sure that is was done for one and done correctly. The parent(s) of these kids do not do this. These parent(s) do not read to these kids when they are young, perhaps to reading deficiencies themselves. These parents do not know how to be parents. Therefore, by the time the kid gets to high school they are way behind. Low test scores are the result. Low graduation rates follows. The schools are hand tied of what they can do with these kids. The kids that do score well on the tests, graduate and go to college are the ones that value education and perhaps had good parents. The bottom line is that the Dept of Education and the local school system can only do so much from what they have to work with.
