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Board Approves Academy: Southern Will Add Biosciences in 2007-08 Year

Posted on: Wednesday, 22 March 2006, 12:00 CST

By Brandee Hayhurst, Times-News, Burlington, N.C.

Mar. 22--Southern Alamance High School's school improvement team gave a thumbs up this week to plans to start a biosciences academy in the 2007-08 school year.

Principal Kent Byrd said the next step is to create a planning task force of teachers, parents and staff, who will spend the next 18 months deciding what the biosciences academy will ultimately look like.

The task force will also make getting parents involved "an early priority," Byrd said.

Southern was slated to open three new schools on its campus this fall, but administrators said the proposition got too expensive.

The school reverted to plans for a voluntary biosciences academy, which was approved in a unanimous vote Monday.

"We're very excited," Byrd said. "We went ahead and established some priorities on trying to engage the community and some priorities on upgrading the facility." Southern is joining the ranks of Cummings and Eastern Alamance high schools, which also plan to add career academies in 2007-08. Denise Morton, director of secondary and career-technical education, said at a recent school board meeting that those schools will likely survey students to see what career areas would be of interest.

Williams and Western Alamance high schools currently have academies in career fields such as the arts, finance, health science and information technology.

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