{"id":135944,"date":"2026-02-17T09:37:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135944\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:37:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:37:50","slug":"alicia-hyndman-talks-statewide-education-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135944\/","title":{"rendered":"Alicia Hyndman talks statewide education tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queens Assemblymember Alicia Hyndman, chair of the Higher Education Committee, discusses Metropolitan College\u2019s emergency management training and micro-credentialing programs.<\/p>\n<p>She expressed concerns over rising tuition and student debt, particularly the impact of reduced federal graduate loans on professional degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Hyndman advocated for a state loan program to offset these federal cuts, and mentioned the Excelsior Scholarship, which helps students attend SUNY and CUNY schools tuition-free.<\/p>\n<p>Hyndman said there\u2019s a need for continued state investment in education.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queens Assemblymember Alicia Hyndman, chair of the Higher Education Committee, discusses Metropolitan College\u2019s emergency management training and micro-credentialing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[7488,7490,7489,7423,7487,9,24,63,122,124,123,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-135944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-app-in-focus","9":"tag-cheryl-wills","10":"tag-dana-perez","11":"tag-in-focus","12":"tag-in-focus-shows","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-queens","17":"tag-queens-headlines","18":"tag-queens-news","19":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}