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Secretary Spellings Visits St. Paul, Announces July 1 Availability of $790 Million in Academic Competitiveness Grants and SMART Grants (June 21, 2006)
Secretary Spellings with Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty at a press conference in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she announced the July 1 availability of $790 Million in Academic Competitiveness grants and National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) grants. The grants provide additional aid to low-income college students studying math, science, and critical foreign languages.
Secretary Spellings with Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty at a press conference in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she announced the July 1 availability of $790 Million in Academic Competitiveness grants and National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) grants. The grants provide additional aid to low-income college students studying math, science, and critical foreign languages.

Secretary Spellings and Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty discuss American competitiveness with the Minnesota Business Roundtable in St. Paul, Minnesota. Secretary Spellings with the Minnesota Business Roundtable in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Secretary Spellings with Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty at a press conference in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she announced the July 1 availability of $790 Million in Academic Competitiveness grants and National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) grants. The grants provide additional aid to low-income college students studying math, science, and critical foreign languages. Secretary Spellings with Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty at a press conference in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she announced the July 1 availability of $790 Million in Academic Competitiveness grants and National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) grants. The grants provide additional aid to low-income college students studying math, science, and critical foreign languages.
A student speaks at the press conference in St. Paul, Minnesota, where Secretary Spellings announced the July 1 availability of $790 Million in Academic Competitiveness grants and National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) grants. The student will use one of the grants to study computer science.  

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