Briza Villegas knew she wanted to return to school to get her GED someday, but she had to wait until her children were all in school.
North East ISD program aims to empower adults through education– “It’s just getting here like it was a lot. I mean, it took. It took a long time to get here. But now that I’m here, it’s like, I can’t believe I’m actually here now, you know? That makes me emotional,” Villegas said while sitting in North East ISD’s Ferrari Adult Education Center.
“The people who are here, they want to be here. They want to learn. They have a goal in mind. Some of them have a time frame in mind where they want to get it done by a certain time. So it’s very self-driven,” she said.
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