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Lauren Hewski, 18, was a passenger in a vehicle that hit a utility pole and overturned on Laird Road in Colts Neck Thursday afternoon.

TOPEKA (KSNT)- As of this Saturday, Topeka Public Schools will be celebrating its first student to graduate through their Early College program with Washburn University. The Early College Program allows students to start working on their college degrees while they are still in high school, so they can get ahead of the game and start […]

Micah Calhoun is the first Ashland High School student to earn a college degree before graduation.

By the time she graduated high school, Destiny had 69 course credits, which made her a junior in college.

Destiny-Nelson Miles graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham after being on campus for only two years as Birmingham's first Promise Scholar. 

She credits a portion of her success to the Birmingham Promise Scholars Program, which provides four years of tuition assistance for graduates of Birmingham City Schools to attend any public two-year or four-year college or university in Alabama.

United ISD Superintendent David H. Gonzalez shared a message congratulating all graduates including those simultaneously earning an associates degree.

FITCHBURG — Opportunity, determination, inspiring, confidence, resilience, diverse. Those were just some of the words Fitchburg High School students used to describe their experiences as part of the school's Early College Academy to state officials, including Gov. Maura Healey, Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll, Secretary of Education Patrick Tutwiler, Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Jeff Riley and Department of Higher Education Commissioner Noe Ortega.

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The program is set to launch this fall at Kensington Woods, in conjunction with Washtenaw Community College.