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# Biden-Harris Administration Announces $25M in Grant Awards to Advance  Career Connected High Schools

# Biden-Harris Administration Announces $25M in Grant Awards to Advance  Career Connected High Schools

January 24, 2024

**Contact:  **press@ed.gov

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The Biden-Harris Administration today is  announcing 19 new grant awards totaling $25 million through the first-ever Perkins Innovation and Modernization, Career Connected High Schools (CCHS) grant program.

This investment, issued by the U.S. Department of Education (Department), builds the capacity of education and workforce systems to partner with business and industry, to develop new  high-quality career-connected high school programs for more students. Grantees  will leverage four evidence-based strategies, or “keys,” to help students in  unlocking career success including: providing postsecondary education and  career guidance; increasing access to dual or concurrent enrollment programs;  increasing work-based learning opportunities; and providing industry-recognized credentials.

“President Biden understands that it’s  time to invest in career-connected learning that will better prepare our young  people for exciting careers and family-sustaining jobs in today’s most in-demand fields,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona. “We can  transform the American high school experience and raise the bar for student  engagement, achievement, and career-readiness in this country by providing all  students with access to dual enrollment classes, work-based learning, industry  credentials, and comprehensive career advising. The Biden-Harris Administration  is going to keep on fighting to provide every student in every community with  career-connected learning." 

The grant is part of the Department’s Raise the Bar: Unlocking Career Success initiative, aimed at helping young Americans access  good-paying jobs created by President Biden’s Investing in America through  seeding and scaling promising models of innovation. Secretary Cardona will  highlight this announcement during a visit to the  DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education’s (OSSE’s)  Advanced Technical Center in  Washington, DC today. The CCHS grant program is the first  in the Department’s history intended to build capacity and coordination among secondary and postsecondary education, workforce development systems, and other  community partners to expand access to career-connected high school programs  for more students, with a focus on increasing access to high-quality pathways  for underserved students.

The Department received more than 160 eligible applications from 43 states and  the District of Columbia, requesting more than $850 million to implement  comprehensive career-connected learning projects.

The CCHS grantees are listed below:

**State**

**Grantee**

**Award**

**AL**

**Pike County Board of Education**

**$879,801**

**AR**

**Arkansas Department of Education**

**$1,106,200**

**AZ**

**Yuma/La Paz    Counties Community College District**

**$1,112,555**

**CA**

**Blue Lake Rancheria **

**$1,520,950**

**DC**

**Office of the State    Superintendent of Education** 

**$1,136,348**

**FL**

**Miami Dade College**

**$571,244**

**GA**

**Clayton County Public Schools**

**$1,288,596**

**IL**

**Illinois Central College**

**$1,288,021**

**IN**

**South Bend Community School Corporation**

**$1,747,826**

**KY******

**Allen County Schools******

**$1,475,000******

**KY**

**Rockcastle County Board of Education**

**$1,475,000**

**MO**

**Mexico School District 59**

**$1,475,000**

**NC**

**Montgomery County Schools**

**$1,420,709**

**NJ**

**Essex County Vocational Technical    Schools**

**$1,405,000**

**OR**

**Chemeketa Community College**

**$1,421,219**

**TX**

**Region One Ed Service Center**

**$1,424,289**

**TX**

**San Antonio Independent School District**

**$1,467,851**

**WA**

**Educational School District 105**

**$613,140**

**WI**

**Wisconsin Department of Public    Instruction**

**$1,475,000**

For more information about each program’s awards, please visit the Innovation  and Modernization Program webpage here, and consult the Unlocking Career  Success website for more information on career-connected learning.
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