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LCTI Launches New Program in Building Trades
Lehigh Career & Technical Institute is organizing a new program primarily for at-risk students.
The Lehigh Career & Technical Institute is organizing a new, late-afternoon program with classes in the building trades.
The program will be developed primarily for at-risk students, including those with truancy problems. LCTI draws students from nine school districts in Lehigh County, including the Parkland School District.
The new program will be run from 3-6 p.m. on school days.
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Parkland officials discussed the new program during a meeting Monday of the school board’s Personnel and Finance Committee.
“I’m excited about this,” Superintendent Richard Sniscak said.
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School board member David Kennedy, who is on the Joint Operating Committee for LCTI, said, “This has been talked about for a long, long time.”
Assistant Superintendent Rod Troutman said it is hoped that the classes will be appealing to students who otherwise have a difficult time functioning in school.
Sniscak said it is possible that the building trades classes will be up and running by November.