(Calif.) Ninety percent of students completing Capistrano Unified School District’s dental assistant career education program are hired for jobs right out of high school.
Those graduating through the district’s surgical technician course, which includes a hospital internship, can expect to go to work at a starting salary of $25 an hour.
And the auto repair graduates can go straight to work making a livable wage or continue their education for another year or two at community college and graduate to jobs earning $80,000 to $90,000 a year.
These are just three of the 24 intensive career pathway programs that will benefit from $3.2 million the district will receive this month from a new, state-funded Career Technical Education Incentive Grant program included in the 2015-16 budget last summer.
The California Board of Education signed off last week on the first round of grant allocations that will see just over $91.5 million go to 100 school districts or groups of educational agencies committed to offering high-quality career technical education programs.
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