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Rural students are among the least likely to attend and stay in college, but a new initiative launching in Vermont and northern New York hopes to change that.
Starting this fall, 20 area schools will participate in a three-year program designed to help rural students with college readiness. Students in elementary through high school will develop college and career readiness, be mentored, learn essential skills, work with business and community leaders, and be exposed to college life.
The University of Vermont is participating and will likely host visits to campus, provide college mentors, and allow students to meet faculty and students.
Program addresses widening college gap between rural, urban students
Vermont Business Magazine It’s well known that low-income students in urban schools face significant challenges in attending college. But rural students go to college and remain there at even lower rates than their urban counterparts.
A new initiative, the North Country Brilliant Pathways Program, aims to address this under-recognized gap for students at 20 elementary, middle and high schools in rural Vermont and northeastern New York by providing them with a multi-faceted, comprehensive college readiness program.
The program, with an estimated total value of $1.5 million, is free of cost, but each school needs to apply to be included. The application and program details can be found on the CFES website brilliantpathways.org.
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MONTPELIER â It took a month and a half, but a bill containing $10.5 million in COVID-19 relief to businesses that had not previously qualified for aid, and a great deal more federally-funded relief spending, has finally passed the Vermont Legislature.
Tuesday, the House made additions to the version the Senate had amended and passed last month. The two chambers agreed that would suffice as the final version of the bill, and the Senate concurred unanimously Thursday.
When it passed the House the first time on Feb. 26, the bill, H. 315, carried $70 million in spending. By the time the Senate was finished with it on March 24, it had grown to more than $100 million.