loan forgiveness, the librarian shortage and Laura Bush
ALA press release touts student loan forgiveness for librarians in low income areas while managing to hype the librarian shortage we’re all still wondering about and gives a tip of the hat to Laura Bush. I looked for more information on the Librarian Education and Development Act in several places online and could not find specific reference to the information the press release discussed. Anyone else? [update: you guys scare me sometimes, you're so fast with this - here's the link, and here's another one]
July 22nd, 2005 at 10:42
“Altruistic and inexpensive” boondoggle
Check out Jessamyn’s post loan forgiveness, the librarian shortage and Laura Bush. We certainly do live in interesting times people. ALA’s announcement claims up to 40% of Perkins loans (in certain circumstances) can be forgiven. The other 2 articles…
July 31st, 2005 at 11:21
[...] UPDATE: Jessamyn at librarian.net mentions the story (linking to ALA’s press release instead of the news story linked above), and wonders at the ALA’s motives. Mark at …the thoughts are broken… also comments, pointing out that by the time you’ve worked long enough to get the deferment, you’ll have paid off that much already. . . [...]