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Walmart offers job training via Detroit public schools
The Detroit Public Schools have teamed up with Walmart Stores to provide job training and entry-level, afterschool jobs to students at four high schools.
The training program was kicked off today at assemblies held at Frederick Douglass Academy for Young Men and at Western International High.
Detroit International Academy for Women and Henry Ford High will also participate.
Students will get 11 weeks of job-readiness training during the school day and 10 high school credits for the class and work experience.
Sean Vann, principal at Douglass, said 30 students at that school will get jobs at Walmart. He said the program will allow students an opportunity to earn money and to be exposed to people from different cultures - since all of the stores are in the suburbs.