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Governor to Campaign on College Campuses for 'Promise' LANSING, MI (MPRN) -

Governor Granholm will begin a tour of college campuses later this week.

She is urging students to pressure legislative Republicans to support funding for the Michigan Promise scholarship.

The tobacco settlement money that used to fund the scholarships was diverted to fill budget holes over the objections of Governor Granholm and other Democrats.

The governor has been trying without success to get Senate Republicans to consider other revenue options to restore the scholarships.

She announced her campus tour in a radio address. "This year, 96 thousand students and their parents banked on the Michigan Promise," the governor said in a radio address, "They budgeted for the money promised to help them pay for school."

The governor says scrapping the scholarship also damages economic turnaround efforts focused on ensuring an educated workforce that's attractive to employers.

Senate Republicans say the state simply cannot afford to give a four thousand dollar scholarship to every student. © Copyright 2012, MPRN