For many students with disabilities, leaving high school
means an abrupt end to the supports that they and their families have come to
rely on. Project SEARCH, a nationwide partnership between school districts and
local employers, seeks to ease that transition by placing students in
job-training opportunities, often in hospitals and government offices.
Education Week reporter Christina Samuels and photographer Lexey Swall report
on a program in Manassas, Va., for the 2015 Diplomas Count special report that
examines life after high school for students with disabilities.
For the past four years, Novant Health Prince William
Medical Center has employed young adults from the 7,400-student Manassas, Va.,
district. A teacher from the district is on site to work with students in the
program, which currently has positions for up to 10 students per academic year.
The students have learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, and autism.
To read more on this story, click here: Giving Students with Disabilities a Career Opportunity
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