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Plattsmouth Proposes Wall-to-Wall Academy Model

High school career academies in Nebraska are no new development. Last year, we wrote about Gering Public Schools and their adoption of the academy model. Although career academies were originally designed for students at risk of dropping out in order to give them marketable skills and increase their chance of graduation, today’s academies are slightly […]

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High School Career Academies Prevalent in Nebraska

Career academies aren’t a new tradition in America, or even Nebraska, for that matter. The Omaha World-Herald’s history claims that academies actually go back as far as 45 years, first designed for students at risk of dropping out in order to give them marketable skills and increase their chance of graduation. Today, they serve a different […]