{"id":148842,"date":"2026-04-24T20:40:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T00:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=148842"},"modified":"2026-04-24T20:40:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T00:40:22","slug":"boscola-announces-1401907-in-funding-for-dual-credit-programs-at-lehigh-valley-community-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=148842","title":{"rendered":"BOSCOLA ANNOUNCES $1,401,907 IN FUNDING FOR DUAL CREDIT PROGRAMS  AT LEHIGH VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BETHLEHEM (April 24, 2026) \u2013<\/strong> State Senator Lisa M. Boscola announced that Northampton Community College and Lehigh Carbon Community College have been awarded a total of $1,401,907 in grant funding for their respective dual credit programs, which allow high school students to take college courses and earn both college and high school credit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cState funding for dual enrollment initiatives at our region\u2019s community colleges is a prudent investment to improve educational opportunities and achievement that allows students to better prepare for entering college and pursuing successful careers,\u201d Boscola stated. \u201cDual credit programs provide high school students the opportunity to experience college life before full-time enrollment and also makes college more affordable through the credits earned towards their degrees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh Carbon Community College was awarded $1 million and Northampton Community College was awarded $401,907 for their dual credit programs. Statewide, the Pennsylvania Department of Education awarded $7 million in grants to 10 institutions of higher education for dual-credit programs through the Commonwealth\u2019s Dual Credit Innovation Grant Program.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nKurt J. Derr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM (April 24, 2026) \u2013 State Senator Lisa M. Boscola announced that Northampton Community College and Lehigh Carbon Community College have been awarded a total of $1,401,907 in grant funding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=148842\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BOSCOLA ANNOUNCES $1,401,907 IN FUNDING FOR DUAL CREDIT PROGRAMS  AT LEHIGH VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGES<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Lisa-Boscola.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148843,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148842\/revisions\/148843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}