{"id":387087,"date":"2023-03-13T06:06:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T20:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=387087"},"modified":"2023-03-13T06:06:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T20:06:37","slug":"3-pacific-lawmakers-meet-with-scholars-group-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/3-pacific-lawmakers-meet-with-scholars-group-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Pacific lawmakers meet with scholars\u2019 group in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_387088\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-387088\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Pacific-lawmakers-pix-PW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-387088\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Pacific-lawmakers-pix-PW-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-387088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pacific lawmakers are shown with APIA Scholars group on Capitol Hill. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C\u2014Delegates Uifa\u2019atali Amata Radewagen (R-AS), Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (D-MP), and James Moylan (R-GU) along with former delegate Robert Underwood, met Wednesday with Asia Pacific Islander American Scholars to discuss the educational needs for Pacific Islanders throughout the United States and higher education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate the good work and education goals of the APIA Scholars program, this discussion with their leadership team, and the commitment to education of my colleagues, Congressman Sablan and Congressman Moylan,\u201d said Radewagen. \u201cOur Pacific Islander youth can face geographic and economic obstacles to higher education. It\u2019s important to continue to build better access, and keep encouraging our young people from the islands or our islander communities here in the U.S. with educational possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>APIA Scholars is a nonprofit focused on opportunities and student success rates for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander students, including partnering with Asian American and NHPI-Serving Institutions and what factors can remove financial barriers and increase success rates in both studies and careers. <em>(PR)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C\u2014Delegates Uifa\u2019atali Amata Radewagen (R-AS), Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (D-MP), and James Moylan (R-GU)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":387088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}