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High marks for high school partnership academies
- 10-26-2011
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By Kathryn Baron/Thoughts on Public Education
When I met Reanna Garnsey two years ago, she was a 4.0 junior at Laguna Creek High School in the Elk Grove Unified School District. As a ninth grade student, her GPA was 0.8. Reanna cut school – a lot. What brought her back from the brink of dropping out the Green Energy Technology Academy (GETA), a program that combines academics with real world skills in alternative energy, including research, mentorships and internships. Reanna’s transformation was so stunning that State Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg asked her to testify before the state legislature in support of a bill to fund more of those programs. Her story may be on the far side of average, but programs, like GETA, known as California Partnership Academies, are producing many success stories, according to a report released Tuesday by the State Department of Education. (more...)
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