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Mayor’s Youth Employment Program: Opening Young Minds to New Careers

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Weekly Roundup:
​September 3, 2024

Beyond the classroom. In the community.
Connecting with your promising young talent.

“It's a great opportunity for a local high school student to see what exists locally in Charlotte."

~ Ryker Thompson, Manager of CLT Planning & Administration at American Airlines

Mayor’s Youth Employment Program: Opening Young Minds to New Careers

(Charlotte, NC/City of Charlotte) + Mayor’s Youth Employment Program​

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COMMUNITY BUILDING

→ Edmonds School District’s Career Connect Program gives interns real-world work experience (Lynnwood, WA/My Edmonds News) + Internship Connect​

→ Students can study robotics for free through program (Bentonville, AR/Lydia Fletcher, Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette)

→ Marshall High School seniors hired for school credit union operations (Marshall, MI/CUInsight)

→ UVA engineering students mentor local high schoolers (Charlottesville, VA/Jacob Phillips, WVIR) + Albemarle County Public Schools Senior Capstone Projects​

→ Oakmont students will take another step towards career readiness: How the new program works (Ashburnham, MA/Emilia Cardona, The Gardner News)

→ Students brainstorm tech to solve real-world problems (Columbus, MS/Emma McRae, The Dispatch)

→ Will free tuition help more students pursue higher ed? Austin Community College hopes so. (Austin, TX/Becky Fogel, KUT News) + ACC Free Tuition Program​

CELEBRATING COMPANIES WITH HIGH SCHOOL OPPORTUNITIES

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EXPLORING YOUR COMMUNITY'S SENIOR CLASS

The U.S. Department of Education has released new data that, for the first time ever, provides college-level counts of the number of high school dual enrollment students, disaggregated by race/ethnicity and gender.

John Fink, Community College Research Center (CCRC), has the initial analysis of the data that lets you look at your state and college and how they compare in terms of dual enrollment participation.

According to the new IPEDS data, nearly 2.5 million high school students took at least one dual enrollment course from a college or university in the 2022-23 academic year with roughly 1.8 million dually enrolled at a community college. These programs comprised a third or more of total community college enrollment in 10 states and more than half the sector’s enrollment in Indiana and Idaho.

Source: How Many Students Are Taking Dual Enrollment Courses In High School? New National, State, And College-Level Data (John Fink, Community College Research Center)

How many of your community’s high school seniors are participating in dual enrollment opportunities?

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