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Pickens Career Center asks city to partner in work-based learning for students with disabilities

2756488 · March 25, 2025
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Summary

A special-education teacher urged Pickens businesses and the city to host career-center students who earn an employability credential, work paid stipends, and complete required work-based learning hours before graduation.

Stephanie Brewer, a special-education teacher at the Pickens County Career Center, asked city officials to consider hiring students from the center as part of their work-based learning program.

Brewer told the council her students pursue the South Carolina High School Employability Credential and are placed in local businesses under a stipend…

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