Giving Students With Disabilities a Career Opportunity

From Education Week | Full Frame

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.

Read more at: http://fullframe.edweek.org/2015/06/04/giving-students-with-disabilities-a-career-opportunity/