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Northern Kane CTE director reports growth in internships, dual credit and state grant funding
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Terry Strowell, director of the Northern Kane County Regional Vocational System, told the Central CUSD 301 board that federal and state grant funding and work-based learning opportunities have grown substantially, including a jump in paid internships and dual‑credit attainment for regional students.
Terry Strowell, director of the Northern Kane County Regional Vocational System, told the Central CUSD 301 Board of Education onstage that federal and state grant dollars and work-based learning opportunities for students have increased markedly in recent years.
Strowell said the regional system, which serves the districts that feed Elgin Community College, manages Perkins federal funding and state grants that support career and technical education (CTE). “Federal Perkins dollars, we get approximately $600,000 every year,” Strowell said, and “over the course of the last 5 years, we've grown from just over a million to now just over $2,000,000 in grant dollars” from the state of Illinois.
The numbers, Strowell said, have translated…
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