On course to open to students this fall, the United Community Center’s Acosta Middle School in its first year will introduce about 160 students to possible careers in the construction industry or other skilled trades.
Students have already visited the construction site of the Milwaukee charter school to see contractors pour concrete for the building, for example. See the attached slideshow for a look inside the unfinished building.
“The whole idea is if a kid wants to go to a four-year college,…