TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV)— Class is in session and not just for the kids in the Vigo County School Corporation, but for students at Ivy Tech who are a part of the Educational Assistants' program.

Ivy Tech students go to schools in Vigo County and provide educational assistants at the schools where they are already working. This will allow students at Ivy Tech to get real hands-on job training and go to school, all while still being able to keep a full-time job and raise a family if they desire.

Lynsey Dowell is the educational assistant at Rio Grande Elementary and she already had an interest in being a teacher and working in a program like this and knew when a program like this started at Ivy Tech, it would be perfect for her.

"You're not taking the classes and then all of a sudden

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