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Upper Darby proposes NEON pilot and structured pathways with Delaware County Community College
Summary
District staff recommended piloting a NEON financial-literacy college course and three structured pathways with Delaware County Community College (pre-nursing, business academy, business foundation); officials estimated initial NEON tuition at $300 per student and structured-pathway per-student costs of about $1,440, with a first-year upper bound of roughly $86,000 for 60 students.
Upper Darby administrators presented two models to expand college-credit opportunities for high-school students: an embedded-university NEON pilot and structured two-year and one-year pathways with Delaware County Community College.
James Finch, supervisor of guidance and mathematics, said the NEON model would embed a university-affiliated, credit-bearing course inside the high-school day. "Our plan is to try transition the current personal finance investing honors course into a college level credit bearing financial literacy course from either the Wharton…
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