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PublicSource launched "Pencils Down" this week, a series on how plummeting enrollment and low success rates at the Community College of Allegheny County harm students and the Pittsburgh region.
The pandemic accelerated enrollment declines at CCAC but the trend stretches back years.
“We hire a lot of CCAC graduates,” said Kelly Kassab, chief operating officer of Jefferson and Canonsburg hospitals, in the Allegheny Health Network. “If one of our biggest educators is not producing at the same level as they were, it could hurt all of the health systems around here.”
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