Page 27 - Promise Program News Today

Free college. That’s what Indian River State College is promising high school seniors graduating on the Treasure Coast.

Indian River State College has launched its "Promise Program" that allows high school seniors on the Treasure Coast to sign up to earn an Associates degree without paying tuition.

Indian River State College has launched its "Promise Program" that allows high school seniors on the Treasure Coast to sign up to earn an Associates degree without paying tuition.

The Promise Program has been expanded to include eligible, in-district homeschool students.

Indian River State College President, Dr. Timothy Moore, addresses a special assembly of Sebastian River High School seniors to introduce year two of the IRSC Promise program—a free tuition program sponsored by the IRSC Foundation.

The $1.4 million program, launched in March, attracted 2,200 Treasure Coast graduates to pursue the no-risk chance to earn an associate degree.

The Promise Program this year has been providing a tuition free path to an Associate Degree for qualified students who graduated this past May from a public school in Martin, Okeechobee, Indian River, and St. Lucie Counties.

For the second year in a row, volunteers are gathering at Calgarys Veterans Association Food Bank to crochet purple Remembrance Day poppies.

Debi Stoker and Charlotte Gullap-Moore are running for Trustee Area 1, and Marsha Croninger and Sharon Salvador-Jegottka are running for the Trustee Area 5 seat

Adrienne García-Specht, who's running for Cuesta College's trustee area 4, remembers when the seeds were sown for her ambition. In 2020, months after the United...