{"id":17778,"date":"2014-01-24T13:43:07","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T21:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/students-families-invited-to-learn-about-college-options\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T09:25:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T16:25:30","slug":"students-families-invited-to-learn-about-college-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/students-families-invited-to-learn-about-college-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Students, families invited to learn about college options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The Kent School District presents Beyond High School on Feb. 5, an event\u00a0to help families navigate education options after high school.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The program runs from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at Kentridge High School,\u00a0<span>12430 SE 208th St.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re committed to preparing our students for success in the 21st century,&#8221; said Superintendent Edward Lee Vargas. &#8220;By providing this extra opportunity to learn more about college options, we can help prepare all students for their futures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Students and parents will receive information about the variety of options available for students after high school, such as two- and four-year colleges, technical schools, military academies, military service, apprenticeships and more. More than 80 institutions will have representatives available to answer questions. Attendees can participate in breakout sessions on a variety of topics.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>For more information, call Kentridge Counseling Office at 253-373-7349.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Additional college preparation events KSD offers are College Goal Washington&#8217;s financial aid workshops, College Bound scholarship conferences, Roadmap to College&#8217;s DiscoverU Day, and free college entrance tests.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kentridge High School hosts Beyond High School event with 80 post-high school institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-17778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17778"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}