State Rep. Manuel Guzman, D-Berks, announced Tuesday $150,000 in grant funding has been awarded to the Reading Area Community College through the Pennsylvania Department of Education to support student parents pursuing higher education.<\/p>\n
The funding will help expand programs that offer tuition assistance, emergency financial aid, and other services designed to reduce barriers for parenting students.<\/p>\n
\u201cEducation is one of my top priorities, and I remain committed to ensuring that people across all stages of life have access to the tools they need to succeed,\u201d Guzman said. \u201cThis funding will make a real difference for families in our community by helping student parents achieve their goals.\u201d<\/p>\n
Guzman noted that his district, which includes the city of Reading, continues to benefit from investments that strengthen access to affordable education.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an important investment in our community\u2019s future,\u201d Guzman added. \u201cWhen we support education, we create more opportunities for families and boost our local economy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State Rep. Manuel Guzman, D-Berks, announced Tuesday $150,000 in grant funding has been awarded to the Reading Area…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-153976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}