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When the U.S. Department of Education announced last summer that federal Pell Grants would become available to incarcerated college students, lawmakers and state corrections agencies scrambled to adjust statutes and
College Decision Day is typically May 1, however delays with FAFSA have caused many students to be stuck in limbo.
Congress gave California’s public colleges and universities more than $8 billion in emergency funding during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now the money is drying up and schools are faced with a grim financial future.
Hundreds of schools have pushed back their deadlines this year, but not every college has changed the date.
Students still have time to fill out their FAFSA forms in Massachusetts, state education officials said at Tuesday's Board of Elementary and Secondary Education meeting, but should plan on doing so "as soon as possible" to navigate around the chaotic rollout of federal changes to the form.