A change in the delivery of vocational and technical education is being made that will provide more city children with the opportunity to attend Clyde C. Miller Career Academy, where a long list of city residents wait to get in.
To remedy this situation and make first-class education available to more city residents, the Board of Education voted recently to change the way it delivers vo-tech education to city residents.
New students entering Clyde C. Miller will come from the city first. Since the school will eventually have 800 students, this will open up many outstanding opportunities for city students seeking top-flight vocational education.
Like everything that happens in the district, this change has some controversial aspects. Most notably, city kids who planned to attend a county voc-tech program, but had previously not been enrolled, no longer may do so.
City kids who were in parochial schools part-time and county voc-tech programs part-time will no longer have this option. All children who are currently enrolled in the existing programs will be allowed to finish their schooling.
This policy change accomplishes two significant improvements. City children will have more access to the excellent programs offered at Clyde C. Miller, and by 2008 this realignment will save the district more than $6 million per year. This will allow the SLPS to build additional quality voc-tech programs in the city for city students.
– Submitted by Friends of SLPS