Virginia's Governor wants to drop the ax on a program that helps teenagers go to college. Bob McDonnell's proposed budget cuts a statewide program called Project Discovery.
Project Discovery's goal is to get more students in college. It targets low to moderate income students.
It helps students fill out applications, financial aid forms and pay certain fees. The program guides students through the very complicated process of college even taking them to visit schools from Ferrum College to the University of Virginia.
"It helped to get me to where I was at because I had no idea what I was going to do after school," says Tressa Moore.
Moore went through Project Discovery when she was in high school. She says the program gave her direction and helped her get into Ferrum College. She's now a teacher in Franklin County.
The funding is on the chopping block in Richmond. It costs the state about $600,000 dollars every year.
"You would think they would want them to have that higher education and ways to help people get that higher education," says Moore.
Jonathan Hubbard is a senior at Franklin County High School. He plans to major in nursing and be the first college graduate in his family.
"I like how we go out and explore the colleges," says Hubbard, "I mean without that I wouldn't have found out what it out there."
The program's director and employees are now asking people to help them save the program by contacting their lawmakers.
