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Central Coast College Gets State Grant To Help High Schools Get College Degrees

A Central Coast college has received a major grant to help more high school students get into college, and graduate.

Cuesta College is the only community college on the Central and South Coasts to get funding from the state’s Award for Innovation in Higher Education program. The $2 million dollars will be used to create a new program which will set up a classroom on the Paso Robles High School campus for students to take tuition-free college campuses.

The students would have the ability to gradate with Associate Degrees a year after graduation from high school.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.