{"id":305,"date":"2017-10-18T17:13:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T21:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=305"},"modified":"2017-11-02T16:08:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T20:08:14","slug":"305-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/305-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Momodou Jallow, Bronx Community College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-307\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Momodou-Jallow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-348\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Momodou-Jallow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"299\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-349 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Momodou-Jallow-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"299\" \/>I am a first semester freshman at Bronx Community College from The Gambia looking to study International Relations.\u00a0 I have four children, and my wife and I are both in school and have to work to support our family.\u00a0 I drive a cab as a way to earn money.\u00a0 I wouldn&#8217;t be able to go to school without the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP), the Pell Grant and the ASAP program.<\/p>\n<p>I am planning to go to a four year college and am worried because I won&#8217;t have ASAP for my bachelors.\u00a0 I will continue to get Pell and TAP.\u00a0 But if NY isn&#8217;t giving secure funding for more course offerings, it is unclear if I&#8217;ll have the courses available to ensure that I graduate on time.\u00a0 Since I have a family to support, there is no way I will be able to afford to pay out of pocket if I run out of financial aid. This is why I we must have a Maintenance of Effort from our state government.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a first semester freshman at Bronx Community College from The Gambia looking to study International Relations.\u00a0 I have four children, and my wife and I are both in school and have to work to support our family.\u00a0 I drive a cab as a way to earn money.\u00a0 I wouldn&#8217;t be able to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,69,79],"tags":[76,105,18,104,28,15],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-77","category-senate-district-23","category-bronx-community-college","tag-asap","tag-course-offerings","tag-job","tag-moe","tag-pell-grant","tag-tap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}