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Students, schools brace for lottery scholarship funding cuts (SF New Mex)

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Students, schools brace for lottery scholarship funding cuts

  • Posted: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 8:30 pm | Updated: 11:51 pm, Wed Mar 25, 2015. 

Students, schools brace for lottery scholarship funding cuts By Robert Nott
The New Mexican SantaFeNewMexican.com | 2 comments

Roxana Caro said the state’s Legislative Lottery Scholarship has bought her two years of schooling at Santa Fe Community College. “It’s helped me a lot,” she said. “It helps a lot of students go to college in this state.”

By Caro’s count, the lottery scholarship, which now provides 95 percent of public in-state college tuition to eligible New Mexico students, has covered at least $500 per semester for her. But she has concerns that the funding will drop, leading her and other students to pay more out of their own pockets.

Read more here: http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/education/students-schools-brace-for-lottery-scholarship-funding-cuts/article_98b6c2ff-9924-5960-8d17-b722662994e3.html