Students With Disabilities Get a Chance to
Work for the City
The city of Austin and Austin ISD partner to employ hundreds
of students with disabilities across four city departments this fall

A first-of-its-kind partnership between the city of Austin and Austin ISD is in motion and could employ hundreds of students with disabilities across four city departments this fall. With help from AISD's Department of Special Education, which already matches students with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD) with businesses in Austin, the city's pilot workforce program will temporarily hire students and provide them job training so they can compete for permanent city jobs in the future.
"It's my understanding that both our HR department and AISD are working to place some of those students right away. This will become yet another recruiting tool that the city of Austin can use to build a really strong workforce," said Council Member Kathie Tovo, who led the efforts to create the partnership. The program was included in Council's recently approved annual budget as a formality, but Tovo said it won't add an additional cost for the city because the job coaches are already employed by the district. Read More...
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