Model high school programs linking students to college and careers threatened

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By Monique Smith and Louis Freedberg

Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed budget has cast a darker shadow over the future of hundreds of  model high school programs that help prepare students for college and careers.

About half of the nearly 500  California Partnership Academies, essentially “schools within schools” on high school campuses, were already threatened by a loss of funding they rely on due to legislation that will expire this June.

But in his January budget, funding for the academies are among 42 so-called “categorical programs” that Brown is recommending be phased out, threatening  $21 million which the remaining academies have relied on.

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