Pittsburgh program gets funding boost to get more city students into college
The institute trains educators in the schools to teach courses that earn students college credits while in high school.
The institute trains educators in the schools to teach courses that earn students college credits while in high school.
The additional $125 million in the state budget for Pennsylvania’s educational tax credits represented the largest one-time funding boost for the program since its inception nearly two decades ago
Pennsylvania schools, businesses and housing projects are the big winners in the state’s $45 billion budget.
Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned colleges and universities have lost a quarter of their students in the last decade, and this year the system recorded its steepest single-year loss