A new effort aims to lift Boston's valedictorians
Warren Tolman couldn’t get the story of Michael Blackwood out of his mind.

Blackwood, a former valedictorian at The Engineering School in the Hyde Park Education Complex, received a full ride to Boston College in 2006. But part-way through that experience, his girlfriend got pregnant, and Blackwood decided to get a job and take classes part-time to take care of his child.

That decision cost him his full scholarship and led him on a major detour of his life. His years-long journey to make it was chronicled in the Globe’s award-winning Valedictorians Project in 2019.

Now Tolman, a former candidate for governor and attorney general, is launching a program inspired by the Globe series, in an effort to further support this year’s valedictorians as they prepare for college in the fall.

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