Students who get certain state tuition assistance would have to pay it back if they leave the state within five years of graduation under a bill introduced in Springfield. Republican state Senator Chapin Rose's measure would apply to the one-hundred-40-thousand lower income students who get grants from the state's Monetary Award Program. The bill would also require grantees to graduate in four years and would bar them from seeking additional grants in the year after they flunk out. Governor Rauner's budget would keep funding for the MAP program level, but to do that, he wants to cut funds for the Illinois Scholars Program and the Golden Apple Scholars of Illinois program.
