LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa. – Two community colleges in the Lehigh Valley are getting a big boost in funding for programs that allow high school students to earn college credits.<\/p>\n
State Senator Lisa Boscola (D – 18th District) announced that Northampton Community College and Lehigh Carbon Community College have been awarded a total of $1,401,907 in grant funding for their respective dual credit programs.<\/p>\n
\u201cState funding for dual enrollment initiatives at our region\u2019s community colleges is a prudent investment to improve educational opportunities and achievement that allows students to better prepare for entering college and pursuing successful careers,\u201d Boscola said in a news release. \u201cDual credit programs provide high school students the opportunity to experience college life before full-time enrollment and also makes college more affordable through the credits earned towards their degrees.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lehigh Carbon Community College was awarded $1 million and Northampton Community College received $401,907 to be used for dual credit education programs.<\/p>\n
Statewide, the Pennsylvania Department of Education awarded $7 million in grants to 10 institutions of higher education for dual-credit programs through the Commonwealth\u2019s Dual Credit Innovation Grant Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa. – Two community colleges in the Lehigh Valley are getting a big boost in funding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,16583,157,4514,57337,28,9804],"class_list":{"0":"post-175827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-lehigh-carbon-community-college","12":"tag-lehigh-valley","13":"tag-lisa-boscola","14":"tag-northampton-community-college","15":"tag-pennsylvania","16":"tag-pennsylvania-department-of-education"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175827","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=175827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}