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Current Work

New Skills Boston

New Skills Boston is a cross-sector partnership making quality career pathways accessible to more Black and Latinx students, multilingual learners, and students with disabilities in Boston. Our work improves systems and eliminates structural barriers in support of creating engaging, relevant, and equitable career pathways that prepare young people for their futures.

Career Pathways Grants and Technical Assistance

Career Pathways Expansion Planning Grants provide interested schools with technical support for a year of planning to develop a new career pathway. These pathways enable college and career readiness, technical competencies, work-based learning, postsecondary opportunities and credentialing.

Foundations of Career and Academic Learning (FOCAL) Grants support schools who are interested in integrating school-wide efforts around career readiness, with specific attention on leveraging personalized learning plans or MyCAP. This work supports enhancing career exploration and learning for all students.

Initiative for Deepening and Expanding Access to Learning through Career Pathways (IDEAL) Grants support schools and their career-focused nonprofit partner organizations to increase student access and persistence in existing career pathways by supporting pathway development in one of six quality elements defined by DESE.