Agency To Give $6.5M To Aid Working Students
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The Center for Economic Opportunity, which works with city agencies to try to reduce poverty, is pumping $6.5 million into a new program for select community college students to track them in classes designed to help them balance their academic and work commitments. The program is designed for 1,000 students, and will provide them with tutoring support as they take classes with other students in the program, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday at Bronx Community College. More than 60% of community college students in the city have full- or part-time jobs. The program’s goal is to have half of the students graduate and find full-time job or enter a four-year college program in three years and 75% meet the same benchmark in four years.
