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Fremont City officials review $1.4 million summer program as grant ends
Summary
Assistant director Anthony Walker told the school board the two‑year, roughly $1.4 million summer and school‑year career program gave 80–100 students hands‑on vocational experiences (bike builds, robotics, drone training, PC builds) but the COVID‑era funding has ended and staff will seek new grants to continue services.
Anthony Walker, the assistant director of college and career readiness for Fremont City Schools, told the board the district’s two‑year summer and school‑year career program "was worth about $1,400,000," and provided students with a range of hands‑on experiences designed to help them enter the workforce or further training.
Walker said the program combined credit‑recovery supports with vocational experiential learning. "Each kid in this program was able to build their own PC computer and take it home," he said, and students also completed bike‑build projects, robotics,…
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