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Pikes Peak State College proposes health-care innovation high school; board signals interest
Summary
Pikes Peak State College pitched a partnered innovation-zone high school focused on nursing and allied-health credentials, offering $5 million in capital to build simulation labs and a pathway from CNA to LPN and RN; the District 11 board gave a nonbinding thumbs-up to ask staff to develop detailed plans, but no formal approval was taken.
Pikes Peak State College told the Colorado Springs School District No. 11 board that it will invest $5,000,000 to help create an innovation-zone high school aimed at producing credentialed health-care workers and that the pilot campus could open in August 2027. "Pikes Peak State College is coming to the table with an investment of $5,000,000 that we would put into building out the nursing simulation space," said the college president (President, Pikes Peak State College). He said the program would deliver stacked credentials — certified nursing assistant (CNA), licensed practical nurse (LPN) and…
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