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  **HEA: SFA Federal  
  Pell Grants**       

  **FY 2009 Program   
  Performance Plan**  

  Strategic Goal 3    

  Other               

  HEA, Title IV, Part 
  A-1                 

  CFDA                84.063: Federal Pell Grant Program
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  **Program      **To help ensure access to high-quality postsecondary
  Goal:**        education by providing financial aid in the form of
                 grants in an efficient, financially sound and
                 customer-responsive manner.**

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  ***Objective 1 of 1:***   *Ensure that low- and middle-income students will have
                            the same access to postsecondary education that
                            high-income students do.*

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  **Measure 1.1 of 1:**                                       
  The percentage of Pell                                      
  Grant funds going to                                        
  students below 150                                          
  percent of the poverty                                      
  line.   (Desired                                            
  direction: increase)                                        
    1556                                                      

  **Year**                **Target**       **Actual\          **Status**
                                           (or date           
                                           expected)**        

  1997                                     82                 Measure not in place

  1998                                     80                 Measure not in place

  1999                    75               78                 Target Exceeded

  2000                    75               78                 Target Exceeded

  2001                    75               79                 Target Exceeded

  2002                    75               78                 Target Exceeded

  2003                    75               76                 Target Exceeded

  2004                    75               76                 Target Exceeded

  2005                    75               77                 Target Exceeded

  2006                    75               80                 Target Exceeded

  2007                    78               (August 2008)      Pending

  2008                    78               (August 2009)      Pending

  2009                    78               (August 2010)      Pending

  2010                    78               (August 2011)      Pending

  2011                    78               (August 2012)      Pending

  2012                    78               (August 2013)      Pending
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**Source**. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Federal Student Aid,
Pell Grant Applicant/Recipient File.

**Frequency of Data Collection**. Annual

**Explanation**. FY 2007 data will be available in August 2008.