{"id":48885,"date":"1999-11-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9530131f-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"1999-11-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-22T00:00:00","slug":"9530132f-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/9530132f-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts about\nfinancial aid\nprogram"},"content":{"rendered":"

– 1.25 percent of the total fiscal budget, highest per capita in the entire U.S. and territories, goes to scholarship program.<\/p>\n

– $2.3 million allocated for scholarship under FY 2000 budget reflects 48 percent drop from previous level.<\/p>\n

– Grant amount highest in the nation, without GPA and financial need requirements.<\/p>\n

– CNMI’s academic scholars receive $15,000 maximum per year for tuition and other expenses; teacher’s up to $12,000 with GPA of 2.5 , and EAP about $3,000 with GPA of 2.0.<\/p>\n

– In Florida, academic scholars receive $600; Idaho, $2,750; Maryland, $1,000 for community college and $3,000 for four-year college; New York, $1,000 and $500, respectively; and Washington, $3,000 for those in dire need of financial aid. All of these state scholarships and others require at least a GPA of 3.0 or 3.5.<\/p>\n

Source: Governor’s Office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

– 1.25 percent of the total fiscal budget, highest per capita in the entire U.S. and territories, goes to scholarship program.<\/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-48885","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\/48885","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=48885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}