Web site glitch may end student program

[<rms () computerbytesman com>]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/11/02/technicality_may_end_st
udent_program/

CHELSEA - It was just a computer glitch on a federal government website. But
it could force the closing of an award-winning program that has helped
thousands of low-income students of this working-class city enter some of
the nation's most elite universities.

Choice Thru Education, which for decades has provided Chelsea students with
tutoring, classes for the high school equivalency test, career counseling,
and intensive summer programs at major universities, will probably run out
of money in a few months because the US Department of Education has refused
to reconsider the program's grant proposal. The program's request for grants
arrived 46 minutes late after an error on the department's website foiled
repeated efforts to file it through the federal electronic grant-filing
system.

The potential demise of the program, founded in 1966, has sparked outrage
from the state's congressional delegation and allegations that the Bush
administration is using the error as a pretext to dismantle a program
started during President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty.

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