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Ribbon-Cutting for New Marion County Academy Draws School Leaders, Hopeful Learners and Ocala Newspaper
Ocala, Florida — Through a partnership between Marion County public schools and a national network of high school dropout re-engagement programs, students grappling with challenges that have sidetr...
TV News Crews Cover Grand Opening of New St. Lucie Campus
Tuesday was a big day at St. Lucie Acceleration Academies, as the latest class of graduates strode across the stage to get their diplomas and educational leaders officially cut the ribbon on a spaciou...
ABC News Covers Lowcountry’s Biggest-Ever Class of Grads
When family members, friends and educators packed the auditorium to celebrate Lowcountry Acceleration Academy’s biggest graduating class yet, they were not alone. A news crew from the Charleston ABC...
Education Week Special Report Features Acceleration Academies
A new special report on re-engaging students who dropped out during the Covid pandemic puts a spotlight on the flexible, personalized option offered by the rapidly growing network of Acceleration Acad...
New Academy in Clark County Creates Opportunities, Draws Media Coverage
With a crowd of educational leaders, teachers, advocates, and TV news crews in attendance, Clark County Acceleration Academies celebrated the opening of its third campus — a facility that will make ...
New Academy in Horry County, SC, Wins Approval
A second South Carolina school in the national Acceleration Academies network has won approval to open in the Myrtle Beach area, after the South Carolina Public Charter School District approved a site...
Lowcountry English Coach Featured in Teach for America Article
Lowcountry Acceleration Academy English content coach Bria Burke-Koskela was recently featured by Teach For America South Carolina (TFASC) as a South Carolina native with a passion for improving the l...
News Release: Innovative Florida Public High School Dropout Re-Engagement Program Helps Students Push Through Pandemic and Other Challenges
Miami, April 5, 2022 — As schools across the nation struggle with helping students regain ground lost to the Covid-19 pandemic, a group of Florida public high school dropout re-engagement programs i...
Myrtle Beach TV Station Features Potential New Academy in South Carolina
News13 TV in Myrtle Beach spotlighted the effort to open a new Acceleration Academy in the coastal community of Horry County. If approved in April, the academy would take a planning year and then open...
Odessa Newspaper Features New Academy in Texas
The Odessa American newspaper published a lengthy news article about the new Ector County Acceleration Academy in Texas. The article, written by City Editor and education writer Ruth Campbell, began: ...
South Carolina Charter District Spotlights Lowcountry Academy
The South Carolina Public Charter School District posted a story with this attention-getting headline: ‘WE’RE HERE TO SHOCK THE WORLD AND WE’RE DOING IT’: LOWCOUNTRY ACCELERATION ACADEMY TEAM ...
Clark County Academies Featured in Front Page Story in Las Vegas Sun
The Las Vegas Sun featured Clark County Acceleration Academies in a story that ran atop the front page of the Sunday print edition and also online. “Jada Watson is not the archetypal high school stu...