Pell Grants May Soon be Allowed for High School Students in Dual Enrollment
Recently, the Department of Education released an announcement that high school students who want to take college classes through dual enrollment may soon be able to use Pell Grants towards dual enrollment. This experiment has been reported as a way to increase opportunities for high schoolers with low-income backgrounds, as dual enrollment seems linked to benefits like “better grades in high school, increased enrollment in college following high school, [and] higher rates of persistence in college.”