WorkTexas Enlists Multiple Partners to Give Disengaged Youth a Second Chance

WorkTexas Enlists Multiple Partners to Give Disengaged Youth a Second Chance

Mike Feinberg, co-founder of WorkTexas, encourages students at an onboarding bootcamp at the program’s Gallery Furniture location in Houston. No stranger to innovative education startups, Feinberg also co-founded the KIPP Charter School network in 1994. Yerlin Rivera had struggled academically in high school. She fell in with the wrong crowd, got into trouble, and dropped out. After working two jobs for a year—at Chick-fil-A and a Mexic…