California’s Golden State Pathways Program is a historic commitment to career-connected learning. In January 2025, $470 million in grants began flowing to hundreds of school communities across the ...

October 2, 2025 - Saran Tugsjargal found herself wondering who would stand up for students like her. Little did she know that she would become that person. The proposed $2 billion in funding for ...

When she was 6 years old, Lily Saelee's grandfather died from cancer. Ever since, Lily has been pursuing her aspiration of a career in health care, and specifically as a cancer care specialist. "My ...

State lawmakers are signaling they want to severely downsize a new $500 million program designed to bring college-and-career academic programs to more high school and middle school students. The ...

Washington, D.C. — Used in conjunction with the rigorous Common Core standards, initiatives that creatively use time to accomplish ambitious academic and professional goals—such as Linked Learning—are ...

If high school is the runway, it should launch students onto the first on-ramp of long life learning, with multiple lanes leading to degrees, industry credentials, and real paychecks. For a long time, ...

McBride and Cabrillo high schools, in addition to the California Academy of Mathematics and Science, in Long Beach Unified, earned certifications for their specialized academic and career pathways for ...

Coding and space: Microsoft and NASA learning pathways serve as a STEM career launchpad Your email has been sent From Python to machine learning and AI, a Microsoft representative dives into the ...

Last year, California created a $500 million program to help prepare students for careers. With the state facing a $31.5 billion budget deficit, lawmakers want to claw back $400 million of the program ...

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