Job Corps solicitation to provide online diploma services

Let the bidding wars begin… who will be the contractor providing these high school diplomas? Will this be a numbers-based performance contract?

Read the details here:

“GENERAL REQUIREMENTS: The US Forest Service (USFS) is seeking an Academic Institution to provide online (full) high school diploma programs for approximately 216 students dispersed among the following 13 Job Corps Centers”:

1. Angell Job Corps Center, OREGON (40 students)
2. Blackwell Job Corps Center, WISCONSIN (5 students)
3. Cass Job Corps Center, ARKANSAS (8 students)
4. Centennial Job Corps Center, IDAHO (5 students)
5. Fort Simcoe Job Corps Center, WASHINGTON (2 students)
6. Golconda Job Corps Center, ILLINOIS (30 students)
7. Harpers Ferry Job Corps Center, WEST VIRGINIA (35 students)
8. Jacobs Creek Job Corps Center, TENNESSEE (5 students)
9. Lyndon B. Johnson Job Corps Center, NORTH CAROLINA (5 students)
10. Oconaluftee Job Corps Center, NORTH CAROLINA (5 students)
11. Ouachita Job Corps Center, ARKANSAS (6 students)
12. Schenck Job Corps Center, NORTH CAROLINA (50 students)
13. Wolf Creek Job Corps Center, OREGON (20 students)

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Riot, assault charges placed in Jacobs Creek Job Corps brawl (2007)

From the TimesNews.net:

“…Charges have been placed against ten Jacob’s Creek Job Corps students, including one juvenile, arrested during a weekend riot.”

“…After arresting the two individuals involved, other residents of the same dorm became agitated, forcing the Sheriff’s Office to call the U.S. Forestry Service, Tennessee Highway Patrol and TVA agents for assistance in breaking up a brawl…”

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Ten arrested in Job Corps brawl (2007)

Police in northeast Tennessee have arrested ten students at a Job Corps center after a fight broke out.

The Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office says the incident is under investigation.

Sheriff’s deputies, U.S. Forest Service officers, Highway Patrolmen, TVA police and local constables were called to the Jacob’s Creek Job Corps Center to break up a fight in a dormitory yesterday afternoon. The brawl broke out after Job Corps officials stopped a fight between two boys.

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