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Per Scholas
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Per Scholas is an American nonprofit organization based in The Bronx, New York City founded in 1995[1] by John Stookey and Lewis Miller.[2] Per Scholas provides tuition-free technology training to unemployed or underemployed adults for careers as IT professionals. It has 21 educational locations throughout the United States as of 2023.[3]
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Programs
IT Training Programs
Per Scholas offers free IT training and workforce development programs.[4]
According to Per Scholas's training programs, it attributes its success, in comparison to other workforce development programs, to its understanding of the industries its students will enter. The organization works in close partnership with many corporations[5] and is structured with the intent to fill specific demands in the labor force.[6]
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Leadership
Founder and Chairman Emeritus John Hoyt Stookey was chairman, president, and CEO of Quantum through 1993, and has held positions on various boards since retiring in 1995.
Current Chairman Lewis E. Miller is the president of Qvidian, a provider of cloud-computing applications, and was previously CEO of Synergistics and The Future Now, Inc.
CEO and President Plinio Ayala was previously the director of program operations at SOBRO.[7]
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