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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Academies have become popular as a way to create smaller learning communities within a larger school. They also are supposed to help kids connect the dots between school and actual careers. They have had mixed success in DCPS. [/quote]

Academies are pseudo vocational tracks.  That is why they are rigid and there are no AP courses in many.

The focus at JR is shifting from a school to prepare kids for college to a school to help lower achieving kids to find careers, many of which do not need college.[/quote]

I am not a huge JR fan but I don’t agree with this. Academies are a popular HS model with mixed success. They can work just fine for college bound kids and vocational kids. I do believe that DCPS spends way too much money on academies with multiple academy directors at JR + $$ for the NAF branding + extra money for academy events + field trips. Core classes could benefit from this amount of funding. Or they could use the academy money to fund more teachers so class sizes would be smaller. DCPS does not use money efficiently and they never do a cost benefit analysis unfortunately [/quote]

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