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Life SKills Porgram Coming Back to Knoxville High School
Next year Galesburg High School won't be the only school in the Knox-Warren Special Education Cooperative hosting a unique life skills program.

District 202 Superintendent Steve Wilder says G-H-S's numbers are growing and the Co-op executive council recently reached a decision to benefit Knoxville High School.

WIlder says K-H-S will offer the Life Skills Program next fall.

"And it's for students whose needs are such that they're not going to be able to function in a regular education setting at the high school level, and helping them transition from school to life after high school," Wilder said.

"The educational planning and programing becomes more about life skills: managing money, watching time, finding a job, how to go through an interview, those types of things."

Wilder says tentative plans for next year would include 9 Knoxville students and one from Williamsfield to transfer from Galesburg to Knoxville High School.

He says the additional program for special ed students might decrease expenditures. With 9 students at G-H-S, Wilder says district 202 pays a portion of the instructor's salary and transportation costs.

He says it's exciting also to have main stream students exposed "in-house" to ones with special needs.
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