In late October, NYPA leaders joined students at Brooklyn’s Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) High School in Crown Heights to unveil a new interactive green classroom. This initiative is designed to enhance students' skills and better prepare them for careers that will support New York's clean energy future.

“Dual enrollment” programs are the hottest reform in education. But they haven’t worked for lower-income students of color—until now.

Washington Monthly features P-TECH in this piece on the growth of early college schools that partner with industry. Texas now offers more than 60 P-TECH schools and programs. 

Suriana Rodriguez is only 19, but she’s already lined up a full-time job at IBM. After her junior year in high school, she interned at the tech giant’s Poughkeepsie, N.Y., campus, 20 miles north of her hometown, for $17 an hour. For a year, Rodriguez has worked 40-hour weeks as an apprentice test technician, examining IBM mainframes to confirm they work before shipping them to customers. In January, she’ll move to a permanent position with a future salary that she says is “definitely much more than I ever thought I’d be making at 19.”

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