{"id":3582,"date":"2019-08-08T13:39:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T17:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=3582"},"modified":"2019-08-08T13:39:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T17:39:14","slug":"colorado-extends-state-financial-aid-to-undocumented-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/08\/08\/colorado-extends-state-financial-aid-to-undocumented-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Extends State Financial Aid to Undocumented Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3583\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3583\" style=\"width: 724px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DREAMER.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3583 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DREAMER.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DREAMER.jpg 724w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DREAMER-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Undocumented students in Colorado are now eligible for state financial aid.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill into law this spring approving the change. The new policy builds on prior legislation that extended in-state tuition rates to undocumented students.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To receive state financial aid, students must have attended a Colorado high school for three years prior to their graduation and be admitted to a participating college.<\/p>\n<p>Recipients are also asked to sign a document pledging to seek legal status as soon as they are eligible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leg.colorado.gov\/bills\/hb19-1196\">Read more about the legislation<\/a> and learn about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacacnet.org\/advocacy--ethics\/initiatives\/undocumented-students\/#accordion_0\">undocumented students and higher education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\"><em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undocumented students in Colorado are now eligible for state financial aid. Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill into law this spring approving the change. The new policy builds on prior legislation that extended in-state tuition rates to undocumented students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[364],"class_list":["post-3582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access","tag-undocumented-students"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-VM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}