Bowser Administration Celebrates DC Students on DC Decision Day

(Washington, DC) – Right this moment, the Workplace of the State Superintendent of Training (OSSE) led faculties within the celebration of DC Choice Day – during which college students at excessive faculties throughout DC proudly introduced their postsecondary selections for the 2022-23 college 12 months. OSSE can be spotlighting tuition help packages put in place to assist college students pay for school.

DC Choice Day acknowledges the various pathways college students pursue after commencement, whether or not that’s a four- or two-year diploma program, a postsecondary credential or the navy, and encourages youthful college students and households to organize early for that subsequent step. Excessive faculties throughout the town are internet hosting their very own DC Choice Day celebrations all through the week.

“We’re extraordinarily pleased with our highschool seniors who’re taking this subsequent step to advance their training,” stated State Superintendent Christina Grant. “However our dedication as a metropolis to them can not cease at highschool commencement I encourage all DC highschool college students to benefit from the quite a few tuition help packages we’ve got in place to assist them not solely get to school however to complete.”

To help college students pursuing levels in these profession pathways, the District launched the DC Futures Program. The brand new program, created via a $12 million funding by Mayor Bowser and supplied via OSSE, offers faculty tuition and help for DC residents in search of a level in a high-demand profession area at three native universities. OSSE may also proceed to manage two historic monetary help packages supplied to DC residents yearly:

• The DC Tuition Help Grant, or DCTAG, which pays the distinction between in-state and out-of-state tuition, as much as $10,000 yearly at public faculties and as much as $2,500 at non-public faculties in DC and personal HBCUs, nationwide; and

• The Mayor’s Students Undergraduate Program, which offers need-based funding for eligible DC residents incomes their first affiliate or first bachelor’s diploma at choose space faculties and universities. This system is a last-dollar award that means it may be used to fill the hole between a scholar’s monetary support bundle and the price of attendance.

For extra data on DC Choice Day, the District’s new Superior Technical Middle, DC Futures and monetary help packages for college kids pursuing postsecondary training, go to OSSE’s web site.