{"id":45144,"date":"1999-01-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-01-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/942326d6-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"1999-01-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-01-13T00:00:00","slug":"942326e7-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/942326e7-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#039;t mulls scholarship changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government will continue to support the scholarship program but changes will be needed on some policies and on the scholarship law itself, Rep. Heinz S. Hofschneider said last week.<\/p>\n<p>Hofschneider, the chairman of the House Committee on Health Education and Welfare, said the planned changes would touch on the course loads for off-island and on-island students.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, off-island students would be required to carry at least 12 credits. Such would not be the case for on-island students, some of whom might be working part-time.<\/p>\n<p>Hofschneider said part-time employment is particularly encouraged because this could reduce dependence on government jobs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would like to see further strengthening of this emphasis so that existing employees in the private and public sector will move vertically rather than horizontally,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio agreed, saying the CNMI feels pride in seeing students through college.<\/p>\n<p>Hofschneider also said the scholarship grants would be capped so that funds could be shared fairly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government will continue to support the scholarship program but changes will be needed on some policies and on the scholarship law itself, Rep. Heinz S. Hofschneider said last week.<\/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-45144","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\/45144","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=45144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}