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Partnership academies face funding squeeze
- 11-24-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Partnership academies, the linchpin of the state’s career and technical education, face a critical year ahead. Funding expires for 210 of the 500 academies at the end of the school year. And there will be renewed pressure to remove protections that have preserved annual funding for the remaining 290. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, like governors before him, has praised partnership academies as a win-win for student achievement and the state’s workforce. But academies remain vulnerable to budget cuts with the state facing a $25 billion budget deficit. Partnership academies are small communities within a larger high school. Students in the three-year programs take core academic classes and technical classes related to the academy’s theme, whether information technology, business, health, biotechnology, construction and engineering, or themes tied to other industry sectors. Students must participate in business internships in their junior or senior year, exposing them to the work world and mentorships with partnering companies. At least half of the students must be at risk of dropping out. Program evaluations consistently have been positive. (more…)
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