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Committee advances plan to expand 'Promise' scholarship support statewide
Summary
The Higher Education and Employment Advancement Committee advanced S.B. 380, which would add state funding to expand municipal "Promise" programs and boost the Roberta Willis scholarship by $30 million in its first year to help thousands of additional Connecticut students afford college.
Sen. Derek Slapp (chair of the Higher Education and Employment Advancement Committee) urged support for S.B. 380, calling it a bid to address college affordability in Connecticut and to scale successful municipal "Promise" programs statewide. "We are a relatively high cost state ... only 40% of eligible Connecticut students actually receive a state need based grant," Slapp told the committee as he moved the bill to JFS to the floor.
The bill follows recommendations from the Promise Task Force…
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