New event for vocational program in Seattle
Bob Markholt and the Seattle Vocational Institute are planning a Green jobs Now event in Seattle. Check out this article about them, from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 7/27/08. They're working to add a green curriculum in the near future.
SVI students in action
Bob Markholt and the Seattle Vocational Institute are planning a Green jobs Now event in Seattle. Check out this article about them, from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 7/27/08. They're working to add a green curriculum in the near future.
Vocational program builds opportunity for students with few options
By Claudia Rowe
P-I REPORTER
Few college professors find themselves knocking on a student's front door, asking the parents inside if their son was just killed in a shooting. But Bob Markholt did it just a few weeks ago, after one of his pupils was gunned down in a car on Interstate 5.
And it wasn't the first time.
The vast majority of young men he works with at Seattle Vocational Institute are high school dropouts, many of whom have criminal histories, some with gang involvement. Background checks bar nearly all of them from living-wage jobs.
Read the full article: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/372452_svi28.html
