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Higher ed groups ask: Can international and unauthorized students get COVID-19 relief?

January 28, 2021

The $6 billion in emergency student grants funded by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security, or CARES, Act, was the subject of high-profile legal drama.

Nearly two weeks after former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos released the money to colleges in early April, the department released guidance specifying that colleges could only provide grants to students who qualified for federal financial aid, boxing out international and unauthorized populations.

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