Mayor Rahm Emanuel, US Representative Bobby L. Rush, the Chicago Building Trades and Chicago Public Schools announced Dunbar Career Academy High School will establish a comprehensive citywide construction trades program in the 2016-2017 school year.

Due to increasing demand by employers for the skilled trades, the "Construction Trades Campus at Dunbar" is designed to create a model school focused on teaching students skills in the following industries:  general construction, carpentry, heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC), welding, and electricity.  These investments will provide Chicago's students greater choice in career paths and training that will set them on a path to the middle class.

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