Hurdles Remain For Raising Number of College Graduates, Even With Free Tuition

More than 80 percent of Kalamazoo Public Schools graduates have taken advantage of free or vastly reduced tuition to any public college or university in Michigan through the Kalamazoo Promise, which costs the anonymous donors about $20 million a year. But just 54 percent of the first recipients are either still in college or have graduated. David Jesse, Hechinger Report, Dec. 17, 2010