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Dual enrollment courses facing financial threat in Louisiana [Video]

In Louisiana, 41,000 students could no longer be enrolled in their current dual enrollment program. This comes as the proposed state budget is facing a shortfall impacting higher education.Jewel M. Sumner High School junior Meredith Childers is one of 27 Tangipahoa Parish students participating in an education dual enrollment program with Southeastern University. The program allows juniors and seniors to earn college credit, putting them on a faster path to becoming teachers.Childers says she enrolled in the class understanding the dire need for teachers. “It’s important to know that one day I will be able to be that person for somebody, and I can teach to those people and let them know that we do need more educators in our lives,” she said.During the first year of the partnership, six students in the program went on to major in education. It’s a grow-your-own approach to tackling the teacher shortage taught …

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New Year's Resolution Bootstrap a Startup with a Paycheck and 1Mby1M [Video]

We are in 2025. Hundreds of thousands of tech businesses have already been built successfully. Let's learn from those who have come before us. Girish Navani started eClinicalWorks, a healthcare IT venture by bootstrapping with a paycheck. Girish scaled to over $500M in revenue. Since 2006, I have spent thousands of hours interviewing successful entrepreneurs. Listening. Asking questions. Understanding. Extrapolating. Learning about their mistakes. Capturing their lessons from the trenches. I encapsulated their anecdotal knowledge into Methodology. I have been running One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) since 2010. Our unwavering mission has been to democratize entrepreneurship education, incubation and acceleration. What is Core Startup Methodology? Bootstrapping. Positioning. Market Sizing. Customer Validation. Customer Acquisition. Financing. Team Building. We have to learn Domain Specific nuances. We call them Electives. Artificial Intelligence. Machine