With area students now counting time until summer vacation in days â?? rather than weeks or months â?? it’d be no surprise if considering their academic future isn’t priority No. 1.
But for hundreds of local eighth-graders, that’s exactly where the focus has been heading into the summer holiday.
They’re the students who have signed or are thinking about signing the Wisconsin Covenant, a deal with the state that offers admission to a state post-secondary school and applicable financial aid in exchange for meeting certain academic and attendance criteria throughout high school.