In a surprise announcement during his State of the State address Monday, Gov. Bill Haslam outlined a plan to expand the Tennessee Promise scholarship model to allow adults to attend community college tuition-free.
Before announcing the new scholarship for adults, Haslam emphasized the early success of Tennessee Promise, which has sent more than 33,000 high school students to community and technical colleges tuition-free since he proposed it during his 2014 State of the State speech. Expanding that model to adults, he said, was a natural next step.
http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/education/2017/01/30/haslam-outlines-expansion-tennessee-promise-scholarship/97149362/When a visionary comes & proposed an idea, sometimes it catches on !
