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toward associate's degrees in computer systems and electromechanical
engineering.
By fall 2013, there were 82 students dual enrolled and in an
average of five college courses.
President Barack Obama gave P-TECH a shout-out in his
2013 State of the Union address and visited the high school later
that year, praising it as " a ticket into the middle class [that's]
available to everybody who's willing to work for it. " He added,
" And that's the way it should be. "
Another world leader toured Brooklyn P-TECH the following
year: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who became
the first to expand the program outside the U.S. Since then, 26
nations have followed.
The discussion to implement P-TECH in the Dallas Independent
School District began in 2015 on the sixth floor
of a Bank of America building in the city's downtown. It was
Michael Hinojosa's second stint as superintendent of schools
in Dallas. Two high schools that had previously been in danger
of being taken over by the state had found success by adopting
an early college model, but the district hadn't seen fit to take up
P-TECH-at least not yet.
President Obama praised
P-TECH in his 2013 State of
the Union address as " a ticket
into the middle class [that's]
available to everybody who's
willing to work for it. "
Gathered around the table with Hinojosa were representatives
from the county government, the rail system, the county
hospital, and the Dallas County Community College District. As
Hinojosa recalls, Joe May, now chancellor emeritus of the community
college district, said, " Hey, we've heard of this P-TECH
model and we'd like to see if you'd be interested in taking this
thing to scale to put it at all your high schools. "
" And I said, 'Well, sounds interesting. Absolutely, let me
do a little investigating,' " Hinojosa told me. " 'Let me talk to
my team.' "
Hinojosa consulted with his central office staff and had
them organize a trip to New York City to learn more about
the original P-TECH. Based on their research, they altered the
program slightly to fit Dallas students' needs, adopting a fouryear
model rather than the six-year plan used in New York. Six
months later, the Dallas school district launched eight P-TECH
schools for the 2016-17 school year. It launched another 10 the
following year. The school district set aside $25.5 million each
year to set up the infrastructure for the program, and the community
college ponied up the rest through tuition waivers totaling
roughly $24 million a year.
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Since 2016, the program has grown from eight schools to
18. In the 2020-21 school year, 5,835 students were on one of 36
" career pathways " that include health sciences, business administration
and management, information technology, engineering,
and hospitality management.
In 2021, 12th-grade Dallas P-TECH students had earned an
average of roughly 56 dual credit hours apiece, along with good
money from a growing roster of industry partners. " It just took
off, " Hinojosa said. " It's been nothing short of phenomenal. "
I
n order to become a success, Dallas P-TECH needed
to build strong ties to business. Corporate partners
don't make financial contributions to P-TECH beyond
paying interns' wages. Instead, they offer mentoring and
internships-or, as Hinojosa likes to say, some " love. " The
Dallas school district started with about 25 industry partners,
including AT&T and Microsoft, and now has close to
100, from Cisco Systems Inc. to PepsiCo/Frito-Lay. The roster
includes several airlines and big banks and tech giants, a
list that stands out for both the sheer number of industry
partners and their diversity, which offers opportunities to
kids with a wide range of interests.
Hinojosa told me students are landing great jobs at major
U.S. companies. " American Airlines just hired 11 kids out of one
high school making $58,000 a year with a 401k and free flights
all over America, " he said. " And every one of them [is] Latino or
African American. "
So what's the case for businesses to get involved?
In 2016, Ed Magnin, director of development at Magnin
& Associates, a Dallas-based video game developer and a Conrad
High School partner, joined Dallas P-TECH, motivated by
the chance to help prepare and shape the workforce he needed.
(Dallas College officials, for their part, say employers routinely
make suggestions about what courses will benefit new hires.)
" If we can turn out students that have skills that are in
demand in industry, that's one reason for [companies] to volunteer
to work with the schools, " Magnin told me. " It's also
something the Chamber of Commerce can sell to companies
as to why they should move here: We have good schools and
our students are earning college credit while they're still in
high school. "
Beyond that, Magnin said, businesses like his can better
afford to pay fair wages when they're hiring entry-level workers
straight out of high school. Magnin & Associates takes on two
interns per semester. One such intern was Gomez, who worked
for Magnin as a tester finding bugs and glitches in video games
before he landed the internship at IBM.
Hinojosa observes that not all jobs require a four-year degree.
P-TECH gives an advantage to high school graduates who
might struggle to earn an associate's degree if they had to do it
on their own as adults rather than during high school.
" These industry partners are so happy with this because
now they see a ready workforce, " Hinojosa said. " And now
they're thinking about, 'Do you really need a full bachelor's degree
to work at American Airlines or Accenture?' Because these

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