Plan to reduce Idaho scholarships approved

BOISE — The Idaho State Board of Education has approved a plan to cut a scholarship program designed to help high school graduates attend college by $100. The move was in response to state budget cuts, which trimmed the nearly $4 million state appropriation for the Promise Scholarship program by more than $235,000. The Idaho Legislature created the scholarship program in 2002, limiting the scholarships to $600 a year to high school grads in their first two years of college. About 9,200 college students were scheduled to receive a $500 Promise Scholarship this year; those students will now get $400.