Hillsboro School District Weekly Hot News, January 15, 2024 - HSD Awarded CTE Revitalization Grant

Hillsboro School District Weekly Hot News Podcast

The Oregon Department of Education recently awarded HSD a $248,000 Career-Technical Education Revitalization Grant for the 2023-25 biennium! With these funds, HSD aims to grow its existing Health Sciences Programs of Study to ones of high quality, expanding certifications and courses at all four comprehensive high schools in areas such as Certified Clinical Medical Assistant, Dental Assistant, Pharmacy Technician, Phlebotomy, and more.

In partnership with Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Services, OHSU, and Century Dental, the HSD Health Sciences programs will rebuild internship opportunities post-COVID, and connect students to work-based, career-connected coursework and certifications with culturally and linguistically diverse partners.

Through these expansions, HSD will offer students multiple pathways to success after graduating from high school: Immediately entering the workforce in the field of healthcare; Pursuing an associate degree; or Enrolling in a four-year college or university. All three options promise jobs that are high-wage and high-demand in the growing, diverse healthcare industry.

HSD offers five CTE Health Science programs: Century High School Health Science, Glencoe High School Health Science, Hillsboro High School Bioscience Technologies, Hillsboro High School Sports Medicine, and Liberty High School Health Sciences. We look forward to the positive outcomes this grant and its associated projects and activities will have for students across the district.

Our featured video highlights the importance of student voice! Student voice was a foundational component of the development of our new Strategic Plan, and will continue to be in the years to come. For that reason, we asked some of the students who participated on the Student Voice Strategic Planning Team to record a video for HSD students, letting them know how important it is for them to respond to the annual Strategic Plan survey in May. Information received through the survey is analyzed along with student achievement, attendance, graduation, and other quantitative and qualitative data to help us monitor progress and modify our actions as we strive to meet our improvement goals. Check out the video on our website.

There will be no school for all students on Monday, January 15th in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. School resumes for all students on Tuesday, January 16th.

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