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Archived News Release--Caution:
information may be out of date.
For more information call: (202) 219-6871
A total of $3.1 million in Urban/Rural Opportunity grant
funds from the National School-to-Work Office will be awarded to five local
partnerships in Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities (EZ/ECs) to
implement School-to-Work (STW) systems for youth in these areas.
The grants are being awarded to Cleveland, $600,000;
Imperial County, Calif., $533,778; Kentucky Highlands, $903,768; Ogden, Utah,
$509,413; San Francisco, $625,000.
The dollars will support community-based efforts to provide
career, education and training opportunities to youth who live or attend school
in America's most impoverished urban and rural neighborhoods. The awards were
announced by Secretary of Labor Alexis M. Herman and Secretary of Education
Richard W. Riley, whose departments oversee the National School-to-Work Office.
"School-to-Work prepares American's young people for a life
of hope and opportunity because it gives them the foundation for success,"
Secretary Herman said. "These grants will help our young people in
disadvantaged neighborhoods, where hope and opportunity are needed most."
"Our aim is to give all young Americans, regardless of
where they grow up, the skills and confidence to achieve their education and
career goals," said Secretary Riley. "Building School-to-Work partnerships in
these communities is powerful, because it brings an exciting, motivational
learning approach to neighborhoods that are making serious investments in their
citizens, their economies and their futures."
The new STW partnerships will offer youth a variety of
activities and services, a rigorous curriculum with opportunities for
project-based and contextual learning, service learning, job shadowing, career
exploration, career counseling, internships and apprenticeships. EZ/EC
communities will make their STW plan part of their overall economic and
workforce development strategy, which includes efforts in education, community
development, public safety, human services and environmental protection.
Archived News Release--Caution:
information may be out of date.
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