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Conferees hear late-breaking Fostering Independence shortfall and debate $1.5M GO Student identity-verification request
Summary
The Office of Higher Education disclosed a roughly $570,000 shortfall in Fostering Independence grants for summer term; Minnesota State requested about $1.5 million per year for a GO Student identity verification system and conferees debated one-time, two-year or ongoing funding and staffing runway.
Committee members received two late but related fiscal items: a shortfall in the Fostering Independence grant program and a funding request from Minnesota State to buy and operate an identity-verification system (branded in testimony as ‘GO Student’) to combat enrollment fraud.
Commissioner Dennis Olsen said reconciliation of spring disbursements showed a roughly $570,000 shortfall in the current appropriation to cover summer-term payments for the…
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