Michigan Governor Pushing Scholarship Expansion
When anonymous donors made it possible for Kalamazoo, Mich., to offer every graduate of the city’s schools a hefty scholarship to a state college or university, the new program drew national attention.
It certainly captured the interest of Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm, who noted that school enrollment and property values both went up in the city of 77,000 after the “Kalamazoo Promise” was announced.
Nor was it lost on the governor that no other locality in the nation, let alone in Michigan, had...
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