Q&A
Inquiry into workforce development initiatives for students with disabilities
1:33:38
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Council Member Stevens raises concerns about workforce development for students with disabilities:
- She highlights the high unemployment rate for young people in the city, particularly those with disabilities
- Stevens asks about DOE's efforts to ensure pathways to careers for students with disabilities as adults
- The question emphasizes the need for concrete steps and programs to address this issue
Althea Stevens
1:33:38
Well, we don't have the dream.
1:33:39
And that's why for me, a lot of the words are not necessary, because if you're saying that's the projection and that's what we need, then you work with us so we can fight to figure out how to get there.
1:33:47
And so that to me is where I'm a little frustrated, because it's like, okay.
1:33:50
We're on the same team.
1:33:51
If you're saying you need those seasons, we should be figuring that out and not all this other stuff.
1:33:54
You're saying if there's incoming kindergarten students and we wanna have it, then we that's the conversation because I think that that's why everyone's kind of a little frustrated.
1:34:02
I'm gonna stop here because I know I'm going over time, but I did have one question that's a little bit off of this.
1:34:07
It's just around, like, what are you doing around workforce with students with disabilities?
1:34:10
Because I think that's another piece that I'm really, really focused on, because even when we're thinking about workforce development for young people, we still have the highest unemployment rate for young people in this city, and a lot of those young people aren't students with disabilities.
1:34:22
And so what are you guys doing around that and ensuring that they have pathways to careers as adults?
1:34:26
And I'm I'm done.
1:34:27
Thank you.