Job Corps closing troubled center in Oklahoma

The Washington Post: In a notice published Wednesday, the department said it intended to close the Treasure Lake Job Corps center in Indiahoma, Okla. At that center, located in a remote area of a national wildlife refuge, young people are given a free live-in education on subjects like construction, nursing or cooking.

But, for years, the center has struggled to give those students what Job Corps is supposed to: a new start on a career. In recent years, only about half of its students completed their job training — and only about 55 percent of those got jobs in the fields they trained for. Those results had consistently ranked Treasure Lake close to last among the 125 centers nationwide.

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