{"id":269704,"date":"2026-08-21T19:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T19:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269704\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T19:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T19:38:09","slug":"rep-milou-mackenzie-allocates-560000-for-some-lehigh-montgomery-schools-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269704\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Milou Mackenzie allocates $560,000 for some Lehigh, Montgomery schools | Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2013 Thousands of dollars in grants are being awarded to three organizations in the 131 Legislative District to expand career, education and workforce training opportunities, according to a news release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Milou Mackenzie\u00a0(R-Lehigh\/Montgomery\/Northampton)\u00a0announced $560,000 in PAsmart grants is being awarded to the following schools:<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh Carbon Community College \u2013 $140,000<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh Career and Technical Institute \u2013 $140,000<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery Community College \u2013 $280,000<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCareer and technical education gives students and workers the practical skills they need to succeed while helping employers find the skilled workforce they need,\u201d said Mackenzie. \u201cI am pleased to see this funding expand career training opportunities in our communities and help prepare Pennsylvanians for good careers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the grants are part of a statewide $3.5 million PAsmart investment supporting 17 organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2013 Thousands of dollars in grants are being awarded to three organizations in the 131 Legislative&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,232,153,155,154,433,805,233,8653],"class_list":["post-269704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown-area","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-lehigh-county","tag-lehighvalley","tag-schools","tag-upper-montgomery-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269704","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=269704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}