As many as 6,000 students from low-income families who graduate from high school in 2011 will be eligible for $1,500 college grants under the Wisconsin Covenant, Gov. Jim Doyle announced Friday.
Doyle in 2007 started the Wisconsin Covenant, an agreement signed by eighth-graders that guarantees them a place in a Wisconsin college if they maintain B averages, take classes to prepare them for college and donâ??t get into trouble. The program also will provide financial assistance beyond the grants announced Friday to those who need it, but the particulars of the aid have yet to be spelled out.