Gov. Jim Doyle’s proposal to guarantee college financial aid to low-income eighth-graders would cost $63 million over the next decade, a University of Wisconsin System official estimated Thursday.
The Wisconsin Covenant would require $7 million in new funding every year between 2007 and 2015, according to an estimate by Freda Harris, UW System’s associate vice president for budget and planning. The state and private sources are expected to pick up the tab, she said.