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Promise Scholarship Applications Available Beginning Monday

High school graduates can begin applying for West Virginia’s merit-based Promise Scholarship on Monday.

Applications will be available until March 1.

The scholarship pays up to $4,750 for college tuition and mandatory fees for in-state students who maintained at least a 3.0 grade average in high school. To be eligible, students also must have scored a composite 22 on the ACT or a combined 1020 score on the SAT college entrance exams.

Higher Education Policy Commission director of financial aid Brian Weingart says students should apply for the Promise Scholarship even if they don’t think they’re eligible.

Weingart tells The Charleston Gazette-Mail that eligible students who don’t meet the deadlines for the fall semester can still receive the scholarship. But they won’t receive the awards until the spring semester.

More Than 3,200 W.Va Students Awarded Promise Scholarships

More than 3,200 members of the Class of 2015 have been awarded the state’s merit-based PROMISE Scholarship.

The West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission announced the number of scholarships awarded to 2015 high school graduates on Thursday.

The commission says additional eligible students will receive the scholarship as they are identified through scores on the June ACT and SAT college entrance exams.

The scholarship pays up to $4,750 for tuition and mandatory fees for in-state students who maintained at least a 3.0 average in high school. To be eligible, students also must score a composite 22 on the ACT or a combined 1020 on the SAT.

Students must maintain a 3.0 average in college to keep the scholarship.

The PROMISE program began in 2002.

Gov. Tomblin Vetoes 10 Bills, from Home-Schooling to Raw Milk

  Saying no to raw milk is just one of a wave of recent vetoes made by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin.

The Democrat nixed 10 bills Wednesday, including the proposal that would have let people drink raw milk through herd-sharing agreements.

Another vetoed bill would have let home-schooled students get PROMISE scholarships without a general equivalency degree.

Some vetoes were based on technical errors, including an anti-human trafficking bill.

Another bill would have loosened reporting of instruction plans for home-schooled students, among other requirements.

He disapproved of allowing four fewer in-school instructional days annually. A push to offer four days of early childhood education, instead of the current five, was nixed.

Tomblin also declined to let the state’s schools for the deaf and blind be eligible for School Building Authority money.

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