A new $5 million state initiative will pair community colleges with area high schools to offer free college-level coursework in areas like manufacturing, health sciences and business.
Early college pathways for some Massachusetts high schoolers will no longer stop at grade 12 under a new initiative that will fund up to two more years of STEM-related college classes after high school.
“We’re building off of existing [early college] pathways and sort of taking it to the next level,” said Jim Peyser, the Massachusetts Secretary of Education. According to Peyser, the $1 million apiece grants will help participants set up the academies, with an inaugural cohort of students expected to start in 2024. The Baker administration said in a press release it hopes to enroll up to 2,000 students in these academies over the next several years.The need to train more students in STEM fields comes amid rapid job growth in the science and technology fields. According to 2018-2028, STEM jobs are expected to grow by 7.
According to 2020 state employment data, only 27% of people working in STEM fields identify as non-white. Men outnumber women in this field three to one. And according to an analysis from the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education , 27% of urban high schools in Massachusetts don’t offer any computer science courses.
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