Deadline Approaching Oklahoma's Promise Scholarship Program

Summer is here and kids are enjoying the break but there is an important deadline coming up next week that parents need to know about.

Oklahoma's Promise is a program that offers qualified Oklahoma students an opportunity to earn a scholarship for college tuition. Dr. Laura Latta is the executive director of the Tulsa Higher Education Consortium and she joined News on 6 to explain the benefits of the program.

The deadline to apply for Oklahoma's Promise is July 1.