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Kleine, Karen K. – Vocational Education Journal, 1991
The McLellan County (Texas) Cooperative for Exceptional Children emphasizes vocational training in community settings as well as domestic skills through the Living in Functional Environments program. Community-based instruction improves the transition not only to employment but to independent living and community participation for youth with…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Daily Living Skills, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
Download full textFinn, Peter – 1998
Texas's Project RIO (Re-Integration of Offenders), which was developed in cooperation with the National Institute of Justice, National Institute of Corrections, and U.S. Department of Education's Office of Correctional Education, began in 1985 as a two-city pilot program to place parolees in jobs. Project RIO has since expanded steadily and now…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Agency Cooperation, Correctional Education
