Gary Job Corps Participates In ‘Read Across America’ At Travis Elementary
Job Corps is a no-cost education and career technical training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor that helps young people ages 16 to 24 improve the quality of their lives through career technical and academic training.
The Job Corps program is authorized by Title I-C of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 (supersedes WIA 1998). For more information about the Job Corps program at a national level, please visit their Official Public Web Site.
“Read Across America” at Travis Elementary
Launched in 1998 by NEA (National Education Association), “Read Across America” is the nation’s largest celebration of reading, focusing coast-to-coast attention on the importance and joys of reading.
For over 10 years the students from the Gary Job Corps Center have participated with “Read Across America” by reading in the local elementary schools.