Billionaire Mike Bloomberg is investing $250 million to open 10 excessive faculties throughout the nation, together with one in Dallas, targeted on the healthcare business.

In North Texas, Baylor Scott & White Health and the general public constitution college system Uplift Education will collaborate to remodel West Dallas’ Uplift Heights Preparatory right into a healthcare-focused campus. They may even set up a well being science pathway at Grand Prairie’s Uplift Grand Preparatory.

“These innovative programs … have the potential to not only change the trajectory of young lives, but the economic health of families and neighborhoods we serve,” leaders from Baylor Scott & White and Uplift mentioned in a joint assertion.

The native partnership will obtain about $14.6 million from the pool of funds to roll out its choices. It is one in every of two in Texas, with Memorial Hermann Health System and Aldine ISD opening a highschool within the Houston space.

Through devoted excessive faculties and new pathways, college students will get coaching, credentials and expertise in areas akin to surgical technologists, radiology technicians and respiratory therapists. Officials goal to get college students working with accomplice healthcare suppliers straight after graduating.

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