They also agreed - as a way of targeting benefits on the needy - to tax the education grants.

It also would have cut about $10 million from local education grants.

But the Met does try to keep in touch with past winners, making education grants, for example, available to anyone who has made the semifinals.

Towns expected an $87.7 million increase in education cost-sharing grants, as required by law.

The education grants are substantial, about two-thirds of what secondary-school students would receive for full-time work.

They could also receive up to two education grants of $4,725 each, one for each year of service.

School districts that fail to adopt these policies risk losing their Federal education grants.

Federal health officials, meanwhile, say competition for abstinence-only education grants is intense.

In return, they would receive training, living allowances at the minimum wage, health insurance, child care and $5,000-a-year education grants.

That same year, higher education grants totaled $1.12 billion.