Minnesota ensures one more year of free college for former foster youth
The Fostering Independence Grant program, which covers tuition and cost of attendance for Minnesotans who were in foster care as teens, currently supports more than 645 students
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The Fostering Independence Grant program, which covers tuition and cost of attendance for Minnesotans who were in foster care as teens, currently supports more than 645 students
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Minnesota lawmakers say they've found $5 million to plug a funding gap that threatened to upend the college careers of former foster children who use state grants to pay for tuition and living expenses. "This is an extremely important issue for us," said Sen. Omar Fateh, DFL-Minneapolis, who chairs the Senate Higher Education Committee. "What we know is that these grants help a population that ...
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