A second chance for necessary learning
By Anne Cook
Sunday April 16, 2006
Robert K. O'Daniell
Adult education instructor Lee Fillman, left, listens in March 28 as students Hyosun Kang of Korea and Bahar Kicali of Turkey converse in the advanced English as a second language class at the Urbana Adult Education Center in Urbana.
URBANA – Jayner Bryant woke up every day for 27 years wondering where she'd get the drugs and alcohol that fueled her life.
After a year in jail and participation in a successful substance abuse program there, Bryant, 47, decided to turn her life around. She's now very close to earning her high school diploma at Urbana Adult Education, and that's just a start. Her next goal: to earn a degree at Parkland College on her way to becoming a counselor.
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