2 Schools Gain Succeed Grants Randolph Health Academy and Lee's Engineering Course Will Benefit.
Posted on: Friday, 7 October 2005, 18:00 CDT
Two Duval County public schools will benefit from more than $300,000 in grants from the state's first Succeed Florida career education grant program.
A. Philip Randolph's health academy was awarded $159,972, and Lee High School's engineering academy will receive $159,922.
Created by the Legislature, the program awarded $21 million in grants to public and private secondary and post-secondary institutions to support new or expanding programs in nursing education and teacher certification and to plan and implement career academies. Statewide, recipients included 17 nursing programs, 27 teaching programs and 49 career academies.
The A. Philip Randolph grant will be used to transform the current career-based programs into a career academy championed by Jacksonville business leaders. The goals for this year include developing an interdisciplinary curriculum, working with institutions of higher learning to articulate curricula and offer dual-credit opportunities, defining admission criteria, and recruiting students.
The engineering program at Lee High will use its money to plan and redesign its existing program into a career academy for the 2006- 07 school year.
Engineering academy students will have access to a technology- driven accelerated learning and grade-recovery lab, robotics kits, a computer lab equipped with computer-assisted design stations and an Integrated Technology pre-engineering program that includes industrial-quality software and an interactive multimedia curriculum for manufacturing and electrical and mechanical engineering.
The pre-engineering program is a skill-based high school technology curriculum that translates to college, university and industry. It combines project-based learning with the enterprise process, helping students become active learners through completion of thematic master projects.
Source: Florida Times Union
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