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Shut out: High school students learn about careers—but can’t try one that pays

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Jubei Brown-Weaver knows he was lucky to land a rare apprenticeship with IT and consulting giant Accenture when he was a junior at McKinley Technology High School in Washington, D.C.

He won one of 20 available slots in a new high school apprenticeship program—just one of three at Accenture — in a city of 20,000 public high school students.

Three years later, Brown-Weaver, now 19, has become a full-time employee, earning more than $20 an hour as a package app developer at Accenture.

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