Grand Rapids Business Journal Courtesy Literacy Center of West Michigan
The Literacy Center of West Michigan has moved to the second phase of a $750,000 U.S. Department of Education challenge to advance pre-apprenticeship programs for adults.
The Grand Rapids-based nonprofit said Thursday, Jan. 14, it was named as a finalist in the U.S. Department of Education’s Rethink Adult Education Challenge, a national competition. The Literacy Center’s proposal creates a career pathway for Latinas to enter the mechanical, electrical and plumbing trades by providing English instruction, workplace readiness and skills training.
“The mechanical trades train and employ primarily men, and the vast majority of these men are white,” said Wendy Falb, executive director, Literacy Center of West Michigan. “With construction representing the seventh-highest share of employment in West Michigan and a significant number of Latinas impacted by pandemic-related unemployment in the servic
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The revived criminal investigation into the Flint water crisis expanded this week with charges now expected against former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and other ex-officials for their role in the environmental catastrophe that devastated the majority Black city with lead-contaminated water, according to press reports and defense attorneys.
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