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Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnership

The Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnership program makes grants to States to assist them in providing need-based State grants to eligible students attending institutions of higher education. States are required to match Federal funds dollar-for-dollar or, in the case of Special LEAP, on a 2-to-1 basis.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • The program is no longer needed. When the program was first authorized in 1972, 28 States had undergraduate need-based grant programs. Today all but two States have need-based student grant programs. State grant levels have expanded greatly over the years, and most States significantly exceed the statutory matching requirements. Performance measures to determine effectiveness are needed.
  • State, institutional, and private student financial assistance programs. These other programs provide over $100 billion in annual grant, work-study, and loan aid to students.
  • Program funds are allocated to States in a way so as to ensure that States cannot receive less than was awarded in 1979. This is not an effective way to target program resources, as it does not reflect changes in each state's population of students qualifying for need-based student aid.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Requesting no additional Federal funds for this program since Federal assistance is no longer needed to encourage States to provide need-based grants to students.
  • Developing long-term performance measures to assess program effectiveness.

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