<p>SBDad - </p>
<p>Well, good news for your son - can’t get much clearer than that. </p>
<p>I finally got through on the phone to the MN Byrd administrator. She apologized for the delay and said that they’re still in the process of making award decisions and hope to notify students by next week. Since they originally said applicants would hear by the end of the school year, I suspect that the whole “we’ll notify you when funding has been approved” business may have been designed to camouflage their tardiness. It’s as if MN filed all these applications away for 4 months (application deadline was March 15th) and just now discovered them. I’m still not clear on which appropriation funds which school year, but I guess it really doesn’t matter as long as these state organizations tell us that the current school year is funded.</p>