{"id":1218,"date":"2017-01-15T18:35:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T18:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2017-01-17T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T14:50:09","slug":"legislative-update-for-january-16th-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/legislative-update-for-january-16th-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Update for January 16th, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"Greetings North Dakota ASPIRE members,\r\n\r\nI hope that the new year is treating you well.\u00a0 As you know, the 2017 Legislative Session convened on January 3, 2017.\u00a0 One of the things that I am watching at this point is funding levels for the North Dakota State Grant, the\u00a0need-based state grant program for ND residents.\r\n\r\nThe Higher Education funding bill from the North Dakota University System, Senate Bill 2003, did not show any increase in funding for the\u00a0need-based Student Financial Assistance Grant, also referred to as the North Dakota State Grant.\u00a0\u00a0In addition,\u00a0Governor Dalrymple&#8217;s budget recommended a $1.97 million decrease in the State Grant. \u00a0 Recently, Governor Rick Burgum has proposed further cuts to the Higher Education budget, but the implications of those cuts have yet to be determined.\u00a0 Of course, the legislators will also introduce their own changes to the Higher Education budget before the final passage of SB 2003.\r\n\r\nCurrently, individual awards for the ND State Grant are at $1950 per year.\u00a0 Level funding or reductions may reduce the number of students who are eligible to receive it.\u00a0\u00a0 This is not good news for low-income students,\u00a0especially if accompanied by tuition increases.\u00a0 For more information or to contact your legislators about this issue, here is a link to the 2017 Legislative site:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.nd.gov\/assembly\/65-2017\/regular\" target=\"_blank\">2017 ND Legislature<\/a>\r\n\r\nMary Fredricks,\r\n\r\nND ASPIRE State Initiative\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greetings North Dakota ASPIRE members, I hope that the new year is treating you well.\u00a0 As you know, the 2017 Legislative Session convened on January 3, 2017.\u00a0 One of the things that I am watching at this point is funding&#8230;","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}