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Generac Gives High School Students A Second Chance
With job creation on a lot of minds, employers are reaching out to a younger generation to get them ready for the front lines.
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Second Chance Program Offers Skilled Training
by Beverly Taylor, Fox News
Many are looking for jobs, but employers say the jobs are here, but there aren't enough skilled workers to fill them. A new program hopes to train workers and get them prepared to fill these vacant positions.
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Program's work-based curriculum helps struggling high school students
By Matthew Bin Han Ong of the Journal Sentinel
Sitting attentively for eight hours a day never really worked for Jeff Kopp, but that didn't stop him from getting a high school diploma.
Kopp graduated in May 2010 despite not having to attend regular classes throughout his junior and senior years at Mukwonago High School.
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Green Bay School Program Teaches Students Real-life Work Skills - WBAY-TV Green Bay-Fox Cities-Northeast Wisconsin News
A program new to Green Bay public schools is about to
begin that will not only provide a new opportunity for students, it may also
help local manufacturers find the skilled workforce they need.
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COSBE Forms Partnership with Second Chance
The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce's Council of Small Business Executives (COSBE) is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a celebration of its past accomplishments and a new strategic partnership with Second Chance Partners.
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Freeman Graduation 2010
“I think it’s important for second chances,” Tabat said at Thursday’s ceremony. “A program like this long lessons, including cooperation, team building and responsibility.”
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Battle BotsIQ Builds Real World Work Skills
BattleBots IQ (BBIQ) is an educational program created by the producers of the wildly successful BattleBots television series. As the television show grew in popularity, so did the number of student fans who wanted to build competitive robots of their own.
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Second Chance Students, Chamber Mentors Attack Naga-Waukee
Leadership Waukesha, a community leadership development program, and 56 students from Second Chance Partners for Education transformed acres of Naga-Waukee Park April 14. Together they cleared a neglected, overgrown section of the park located a half mile north of I-94 on Highway 83.
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Offering a Second Chance
Most of them have little chance of graduating from a traditional high school - you know the type, students who chafe against the structure of the traditional school day and struggle to find relevance in mathematical formulas and historic events.
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Businesses Helping Students
Garrett Crish never had high hopes for high school. With no drive to do homework and nobody at home on his tail about getting it done (his mom worked multiple jobs, and his dad was out of the picture), Crish figured he'd take things easy and work at a fast-food restaurant.
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Classrooms Without Walls
With the economy growing tough and competition for jobs growing fierce, graduating students in college, and even high school, need to have a competitive edge. This often leaves students who are falling behind, or who learn through alternative methods, at greater risk for joining the growing population of unemployed.
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May 2009 Report
When Mike Erwin first heard about the Second Chance Youth Apprenticeship program, he was intrigued. There was something that endeared me to it,” says Erwin, president of Tailored Label Products in Menomonee Falls, of the educational program for at-risk juniors and seniors. “I empathized with them.”
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USA Today Article
EAGLE, Wis. — Only after he put his hands to metal on a factory floor did Jordan Vail begin to grasp the
point of math, communications and other skills he was supposed to be learning in high school but wasn't.
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