Students, schools brace for lottery scholarship funding cuts
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.
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