ROCKFORD — Inside Rockford Public Schools’ latest facility you might find students learning to cook in a culinary kitchen or examining a strand of hair under a microscope in a forensic lab.
By next fall, there will be students learning to fix cars at automotive bays and studying dental hygiene for a future in dentistry.
Rockford Public Schools leaders say teaching students those skills is just part of the benefit of The Quad, the district’s new college and career education center at 4151 Samuelson Road next to Jefferson High School…