The
Star Academy Achievement Award was presented to John T. Simpson Alternative
Education Center of Easley, S.C., at the Star Academy Symposium in Columbia on
October 4, 2008.
Simpson Assistant Director Reggia
Stapleton accepted the award on behalf of the school’s Star Academy Program.
The Star Academy is for accelerated learning and dropout prevention.
The Star Academy Achievement Award
goes to the school with the highest percentage of students completing the
program and advancing to the 10th grade. Ninety-one percent of the
eighth-grade students who started the Star Academy Program at Simpson in August
2007 were able to begin the 10th grade in August 2008. In the
previous year, when the program was at Gettys Middle School, 90 percent of
students advanced to 10th grade, and in the first year of the Star
Academy Program, 73 percent of students advanced to 10th grade.
The students and teachers in the
Star Academy at Simpson worked as a team to achieve outstanding results and
thereby earned special recognition for their success.
Learn more about the
Star Academy Program. Learn more about
John T. Simpson Alternative Education Center.
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