Hickenlooper's 2004 pledge to students of Denver's Cole Middle School fulfilled, failed - Boulder Daily Camera

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Then-mayor John Hickenlooper made a promise to students at Cole Middle School that if they put themselves in a position to go to college, he'd make sure they'd have the money. I was a first-year teacher then and remember the announcement. Now that those students have graduated, Kevin Simpson of The Denver Post tracked them down to see how much the money mattered.