Tougher Lottery Scholarship Standards?
Posted by | Posted in School Paragraph | Posted on 16-04-2011
WATE has a story about legislation that is currently advancing which would make it harder to get a Tennessee lottery scholarship.
Why on earth would we make it harder to get when we already have a problem with many students unable to maintain the scholarship their sophomore year?
From the story:
Students must currently have a grade point average of 3.0 or a score a 21 on the ACT to qualify for the $4,000 annual scholarship at 4-year schools.
Under the bill sponsored by Republican Rep. Harry Brooks of Knoxville, requirements would bump up to a 3.1 GPA or a 22 on the ACT for students graduating high school after June 30, 2014.
And in the following year, those standards would rise to a 3.25 GPA or a 23 on the ACT.
We should be encouraging kids to go to college, not trying to make it harder on them. I know money is tight, but this doesn’t seem to be the place to cut.
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