Anchorage School Board to vote tonight on controversial career academies plan

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District leaders say the academies will boost graduation rates. But others, including the head of the teachers union, are skeptical.

The academies would require incoming freshmen to spend one of eight daily classes learning about a potential career. Students would then select a career path as sophomores and have only one opportunity to change their mind.

“Our goal is to develop a system that results in an increased graduation rate,” Kersten Johnson-Struempler, the district’s senior director of teacher and learning, said during a presentation to the school board last month.for the career academies initiative last fall. If the plan is approved Tuesday night, most of the eight high schools would have threestudents could choose from.

Foster is also worried that the academies will be at the expense of core academic subjects. Students would lose class time for core subjects as the district moves from a six-period to an eight-period day to add the academies.

 

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