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Lamar State College Orange and TJJD launch college-credit pathway for employees
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Lamar State College Orange and the Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD) have signed a memorandum of understanding to let TJJD employees earn college credits—including for new-hire and annual training—with 173 employees already enrolled and plans to expand pathways to bachelor'level degrees.
Lamar State College Orange and the Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD) have formalized a partnership that enables TJJD employees to earn college credits during training and stack those credits toward degrees, officials said.
Chris Ellison, director of program development and training for the TJJD, said the memorandum of understanding was signed in March 2025 and that "we already have 173 students enrolled, and that's growing every month." Ellison said the arrangement restarts an earlier credit-for-training program that had paused during COVID and was…
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