Tennessee Loosens Reins on Mandate for Scholarships' Minimum GPA
In an effort to prevent more recipients of Tennessee’s state-lottery-funded scholarship from losing their awards because their grades fell short of the program’s minimum requirements, the legislature has agreed to a plan to ease the rules.
Currently, students who receive Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship awards to attend colleges and universities in the state need to have a 2.75 grade point average by the end of freshman year, and then raise it to at least a 3.0 in their sophomore, junior, and senior years.
The new plan—approved by lawmakers in their legislative session that concluded May 21 and awaiting Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen’s expected signature—would extend the 2.75 requirement through a student’s junior year. For the remainder of college, however, a scholarship recipient would need to raise his or her GPA to a 3.0...
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