"American Indian students from low-income families are benefiting from educational programs designed to help them move from high school to college.

These dual-credit programs — where high school students take college courses that also count toward their high school graduation — are opening up opportunities that some of these students never dreamed possible.

Breaking the cycle of poverty by increasing those students' earning power promises to benefit all New Mexicans.

Beyond the credits, the students have the chance to experience college culture.

That gives them the opportunity to test self-doubts and vanquish groundless limitations.

So, what stands in the way? Money, of course.

Tribal college officials were told state money could not be used to fund the programs because their institutions were established by the tribes, not the state."

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EDITORIAL: Dual-credit programs would help students (The Farmington Daily-Times 1/29)

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