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The Promise
Scholarship is considering
expanding its
offerings. The Promise
Board is looking at a
new scholarship,
which if implemented
would be called the
Promise Tech
Scholarship.
Director Robert Morgenstern
says other states are offering a
scholarship to students who want to
attend 2 year technical schools. He says
the same scholarship could be
instrumental in attracting students to
careers that are in shortage now.
Morgenstern says such careers include
those that require an engineering
background or some type of health care.
Morgenstern says if the scholarship were
offered more students would attend
school in the state and ultimately filter
into the careers we have shortages in.
He says right now Promise scholars are
able to use their scholarships at
community and technical schools but by
offering the Promise Tech scholarship
they'll be reaching even more students.
Morgenstern says nothing is definite yet;
they're still in the exploring stages. He
says in order to make the scholarship a
reality they would need an additional
$800,000 in funding.
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