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Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Howard Hepburn, center left next to check,\u00a0Broward County School Board members and school administrators, along with members of the Broward Education Foundation and Bridge2Life, accept a $1.1 million grant from the Helios Education Foundation.<\/p>\n
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A Broward County-based non-profit organization was awarded $1.1 million to support its mission to prepare students for a career after they graduate from high school.<\/p>\n
The award will go toward helping more than 9,000 Broward County high-school students and about 14,000 middle-schoolers from underserved communities.<\/p>\n
The initiative, \u201cPostsecondary Success for All,\u201d is part of Bridge2Life, a non-profit that\u2019s part of the Broward Education Foundation. Bridge2Life is dedicated to strengthening the local workforce pipeline by increasing the percentage of working-age adults in Broward County with a post-secondary degree or high-quality certificate to 65% by 2030.<\/p>\n
The program plans to make advanced classes more accessible to students, offering college and career-advising and test-preparation workshops across 80 schools in the district.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis investment is a game changer for our students, particularly those who have historically faced barriers to higher education,\u201d said Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Howard Hepburn in a statement.<\/p>\n
The money is coming from the Helios Foundation, which invests in low-income and historically underrepresented communities in Arizona and Florida.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt Helios, we know that postsecondary success doesn\u2019t happen by chance, it requires intentional systems of support that meet students where they are and guide them every step of the way,\u201d said Helios Education Foundation President and CEO Paul Luna in a statement.<\/p>\n
Part of the plan is to establish partnerships with local colleges to raise awareness of and increase enrollment in Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) and dual-enrollment classes for high-schoolers.<\/p>\n
Students will also be able to find tutoring for the ACT and SAT, which are critical for many college admissions and scholarships.<\/p>\n
Families of juniors and seniors can seek one-on-one advising on how to navigate college expenses and aid applications. The hope is also to build mentorships that will help ease students\u2019 transition out of high school and home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Howard Hepburn, center left next to check,\u00a0Broward County School Board members and school…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-228684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}