A city in upstate New York will fast track low-income students into well-paid technical jobs by providing them with with training, mentoring and networking opportunities. Poughkeepsie High School partnered with a gas corporation to teach students the skills needed for jobs in technology and engineering and with a local university to give them college-level math and science courses. Eighty-six percent of Poughkeepsie students live below the poverty line.

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