Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the New York design program qualified as subsidized continuing education under the scholarship rules.
Extrahierter Entscheid
The program was treated as continuing education: it specialized and advanced the applicant's prior graphic-design-related training and, in any event, she was to be treated like a person entering higher education via the second educational path.
Extrahierte Begründung
The court distinguished education, continuing education, fortification, and second qualification. It held that the Parsons program represented a specialization leading to a higher level, and that the applicant's prior path did not destroy entitlement; the legislature did not allow a denial based on a 'detour theory'.