Chaney students can earn college credits for dance next fall

YOUNGSTOWN

Students in Chaney High School’s Visual and Performing Arts program will be able to earn college credit for dance classes beginning in the fall.

It’s part of an expansion of Youngstown State University’s College in High School which allows students to earn college credit at the same time they’re earning credit for the high-school class.

Bryan DePoy, dean of YSU’s College of Creative Arts and Communication, told city school-board members at a meeting Tuesday that he expects the program to begin this fall and then to expand to offer college credit for communication, arts and music courses in the future.

“This is just the beginning of great things to come for Chaney School,” DePoy said.

In other business, Jimma McWilson, co-director of the Campaign for African American Achievement Collaborative, said his groups will begin the process March 1 to educate parents of city school students about other options for educating their children if, by Feb. 28, the school board doesn’t take action to address the academic, social and career aspirations and needs of the majority of city school children.

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