NYC expands career education program, offering students experience in HVAC industry and more

New York City is expanding a career education program to serve a total of 135 schools, city officials said Monday. The program will also add two new career pathways for students, offering experience in the professions of heating ventilation and air-conditioning, as well as human and social services.

FutureReadyNYC, a signature initiative of Mayor Eric Adams’ administration, provides schools with resources to launch new career tracks, along with paid work experience, in the education, technology, business, and health care sectors. The roughly $53 million initiative, which partners with CUNY, SUNY, Northwell Health, and Google, among other companies, invests $30 million directly to public high schools, with funds allocated based on the number of students enrolling in the career pathways at schools, according to city officials.

Under the expansion, the program added 36 new schools, serving roughly 15,000 students.

At a press conference at the Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn on Monday, Adams said the program had taken on a renewed urgency in light of the recent presidential election, in which concerns over the state of the economy and the job market had been a defining issue. In recent years, some efforts to expand access to career and technical education at school have seen bipartisan support across the country.

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