Traditionally, Menlo Park’s JobTrain vocational school served the various populations left behind during the boom years — meaning community college dropouts, people with rap sheets or folks who just didn’t have the connections to talk their way into the tech sector.
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Sequoia Union High School District enrolls students from the winding back streets of East Palo Alto to the palatial homes of Woodside and Menlo Park, a situation that has led to a so-called “achievement gap” falling largely along ethnic and geographic lines.With an election just days away, five candidates for Sequoia’s three open board seats agreed that the achievement gap is one of the district’s biggest issues.
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San Mateo County Jail inmates have a truckload of yummy treats coming their way this week — 10,000, to be exact. For the third year in a row, students from JobTrain, a Menlo Park-based nonprofit that serves low-income San Mateo County residents, have baked thousands of cookies for inmates ranging in flavor from chocolate chip to peanut butter with jelly in the middle
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