While it’s still more than four years away, Portage Junior High School eighth-graders Mackenzie Bornick and Melissa Koch say they are already thinking about where they’d like to go to college — and how they and their families will pay for it.
That’s why both girls say they would support Gov. Jim Doyle’s new education plan, dubbed the “Wisconsin Covenant,” which aims to alleviate the financial burden on families trying to send their children to college.