Lee County Schools partner with Coca-Cola for student careers [Video]

The Lee County School District just announced a partnership with Coca-Cola Consolidated, designed to help students achieve their career goals.

Bernard McDaniel, superintendent of Lee County School District, said this partnership began at the beginning of the year and will last three years.

“We want them to dream big and see what possibility exist and so that’s a major part of this, and its another step in the right direction.”

According to McDaniel, the school district is no stranger to partnerships. The last one was with Pepsi.

“One of the supervisors reached out about the possibility of partnering with some activities with our career center,” McDaniel said. “And that conversation led to, ‘Why don’t we establish a full-time partnership?'”

The district says both parties will benefit from this collaboration – …