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Fulton students report hospital and IT summer experiences as district expands early college pathways
Summary
Students and program leaders described job shadows, college credits and paid work in the district’s Early College Health Science and IT pathways; board praised partnerships with local health and technology employers.
Fulton City School District board members heard presentations from the district’s early college high school program, where students reported paid summer positions, job shadows and college credits earned through partnerships with local health and technology employers.
The program’s lead and staff framed the pathway as both career exposure and college credit accumulation. Mr. Broderick, who leads the early college pathway coordination, said community partners including Swiggle Health and Upstate provided job-shadow and clinical experiences this summer; Miss Barton described an IT summer with 14 students performing 28 job shadows totaling about 112 hours and 25 rising sophomores earning college computer science credits at Cayuga Community College.
Students described specific summer experiences. Cassandra (Cassie) Gilliam, a senior in the health…
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