{"id":44722,"date":"1998-12-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-12-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/93c0dd08-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"1998-12-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1998-12-08T00:00:00","slug":"93c0dd1e-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/93c0dd1e-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholarship funds intact despite budget cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI Scholarship Office said students under statutory scholarships will be given priority over recipients of grants in the event funds fall short.<\/p>\n<p>So far, however, shuffling of funds has played out quite well for the scholarship office, and students have received their school money despite a 13.5 percent sweeping cuts in government budget.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, the more than 400 off-island students who are recipients of the Educational Assistance Grant continue to receive the same level of benefits given them before the budget cuts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were reasonable in helping the students,&#8221; Scholarship Director Hilaria K. Santos said.<\/p>\n<p>Those who would be in the priority list are high school valedictorians, education students and graduate students enrolled at San Diego State University.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, we still have money left, but with the austerity program, that doesn&#8217;t mean that we still can get money,&#8221; Santos said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI Scholarship Office said students under statutory scholarships will be given priority over recipients of grants in the event funds fall short.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44722","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}