Muskegon High School, Michigan Works offer employment class for at-risk students

Muskegon High School, Michigan Works offer employment class for at-risk students | MLive.com
Michigan Works Director Deborah Groeneveld said the program benefits students and employers. Michigan Works would like to expand it to other school districts next year if they can find additional funding.
Students sometimes have an easier time grasping the importance of employment skills than academic courses, Groeneveld said, and letting them take a class they see as relevant can encourage them to persevere in their other classes.
“The idea is to get them to graduate and then teach them skills to go to college or find a job,” she said. “It makes them want to be here.”