Coalinga-Huron Unified School District hosts grand opening for new Huron Academy CTE Building

COALINGA, Calif. (KFSN) -- A caller programme is giving students hands-on learning for a aboriginal successful construction.

The ribbon was chopped Friday morning, officially opening up the newest gathering successful the Coalinga-Huron Unified School District.

The Huron Academy Career Technical Education Building is divided into two.

Chestnut High School, an alternate acquisition school, utilized to beryllium housed adjacent wrong 2 portable classrooms.

Now, students person a caller spot to learn.

Alternative Education Principal Claudia Vosburg says it's been thing she and her students person been eagerly awaiting.

"It's precise bully to spot thing truthful beautiful, truthful new, beryllium capable to bring it to the kids and person them consciousness arrogant of their assemblage and beryllium arrogant of their schoolhouse and beryllium arrogant of the enactment that they do," Vosburg said.

The added abstraction volition springiness Chestnut High the accidental to grow from astir 30 students to astatine slightest 70 who request added support.

It besides gives Chestnut High Students similar Jacqueline Perieda a accidental to instrumentality portion successful the different fractional of the building, which houses the Coalinga High CTE Construction Sciences course.

"I truly had nary thought successful coming to construction," Perieda said.

She was a students astatine Coalinga High and was enrolled successful the operation people and was enjoying it, but past fell down successful credits.

She had to transportation to Chestnut High to get caught up, but due to the fact that of the concern betwixt the schools, she's inactive capable to excavation her teeth into the operation program.

"It excites maine a batch due to the fact that we could really get certified successful things that we would really request aboriginal connected for life," Perieda said.

Juniors and seniors from Coalinga High get bussed successful to get hands-on learning.

Superintendent Lori Villanueva says students are getting invaluable occupation skills.

"Kids tin physique projects, they tin larn to excavation and laic pipe. We're going to screen each aspects of operation sciences, truthful we're precise excited to unfastened this program," Villanueva said.

Students volition person the accidental to gain their forklift, scissor assistance and OSHA-10 certification successful the course.

Most importantly, Villanueva says this gathering brings unneurotic the communities of Huron and Coalinga and the students of Chestnut and Coalinga High.

"It brings the champion of some worlds together," Villanueva said.

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