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Governor Jennifer Granholm has signed legislation creating local authorities that would pay the full cost of at least two years of community college tuition for resident students.
The new law would allow up to 10 school districts or communities to apply for a "promise zone" in areas were child poverty exceeds the state average.
Eligible students would have to live in the zone, but wouldn't have to attend public schools within the zone.
This idea is modeled after the Kalamazoo Promise college scholarship, which guarantees up to four years of tuition at a Michigan university to resident graduates of Kalamazoo Public Schools.
State Rep. Tim Melton, a Democrat from Auburn Hills who represents part of the Pontiac area, is the sponsor of the plan.
Melton told the Lansing State Journal that meetings have started with banks, churches, businesses and charitable foundations to try and rally support for the program.
The No. 1 reason why kids living in poverty don't go to college is because of the money," Melton said.
"There's a psyche that develops in these young kids early on that they don't believe they are college material or they don't believe they can afford it.”
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