📚 A Summer Boost to keep kids from falling behind 🩺 Healthcare high schools
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The Topline: Back to School Edition
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🩺 This school year, healthcare high schools in nine communities across the
country are providing students with specially designed courses and hands-on
experience with local health systems. With another school slated to open next
year, thousands ofstudents across the country will have opportunities to train
for and enter high-demand healthcare jobs immediately after high school
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🎓 More than 3.4 million students are expected to graduate from public high
schools at the end of this school year, and college is just one path they could
take toward a successful career.Through a range of career and technical
education initiatives and apprenticeship programs, we're helping high school
students build skills for jobs that don't require a four-year degree
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📚 Twenty days of extra school over the summer can help students gain five
weeks of math learning, according toa new study of 35,000 students in Bloomberg
Philanthropies' Summer Boost program — an effort to address ongoing
pandemic-induced learning loss
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. Summer Boost supported rising 1st through 9th graders in more than 450 public
charter schools in seven U.S. cities this year.
🎒 Children breathe about 50% more air per pound of body weight than adults.
That's whycleaning the air around schools is an important way to protect the
health of students and their communities
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Cities initiative is partnering with local leaders around the world to reduce
air pollution.
Opening New Healthcare High Schools
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There are millions of healthcare job openings in America today, with millions
more to come in the years ahead — and many of those roles can be filled with
trained practitioners who don't need a four-year college degree. To connect
more students with those opportunities, we've brought local hospitals and
health organizations together with school systems to open "healthcare high
schools" in nine communities around the country, with one more on the way in
2026. Students will benefit from specialized training and earn industry
certified credentials to prepare them for jobs in the healthcare industry —
including with the partner health organizations — right after graduation.
You can learn more about new schools opening this year
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the program is having in cities across the U.S.:
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You can also hear directly from students who shared what they're learning at
their healthcare high schools
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story ofa student in Dallas who used what she learned to save her sister's life
in a medical emergency
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Career Paths Outside the College Track
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"I was an eleventh-grader who really didn't know exactly what he was going to
do after high school," said an alumni of aCareer and Technical Education
program supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies
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. "Then I stumbled upon this apprenticeship program and it was the opportunity
of a lifetime." Career and Technical Education efforts are designed to help
students build skills and gain experiences needed for jobs that may not require
a bachelor’s degree, and give high school graduates an option to prepare for
good careers outside the college track. We recently gathered some of our
partners togetherto share their experiences working with educators, employers,
and students who, as one participant put it, "have unlimited potential."
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A Summer Boost for the New School Year
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Many students who fell behind on reading and math during the pandemic are
still struggling to keep up today. Without additional support they risk lagging
behind throughout their education, which could ultimately affect their careers.
The good news is that we know how to tackle learning loss and help kids get
back on track — and we have the data to prove it. For the second year,a study
of Summer Boost, our five-week summer school program for rising 1st through 9th
grade students, showed meaningful academic gains
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Protecting Students (and Everyone) from Air Pollution
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With classes back in session, kids are spending most of their day at school —
which means that monitoring and improving nearby air quality is a powerful way
to protect their health. Young people are more vulnerable to pollution than
adults, which puts them at elevated risk for asthma, lung infections, and even
heart disease. Learn more about why cutting pollution near schools is so
important, and how our Breathe Cities initiative is helping keep the air clean
and protecting public health.
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