The program is part of an effort to create career academies at high schools in Pulaski County s four traditional school districts, built on the Ford Next Generation national model of organizing schools into career academies that link core academics to the college and job interests of students.
LITTLE ROCK A multiyear initiative to establish career academies in Pulaski County s traditional high schools reached a milestone Tuesday when the Academies of Central Arkansas announced that Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield will partner with Little Rock s Parkview Magnet High to operate an Academy of Health.
In Sunday s column I outlined current trends that play to Little Rock s benefit: tremendous growth in the financial sector as companies such as Bank OZK and Simmons Bank become major regional players; the steady growth of the health-care sector, which will only speed up as the nation ages; the fact that the Little Rock area has become a distribution hub at a time when the supply chain has never been more important.
Architects for the new Christian County Public Consolidated High School are optomistic that construction documents will be completed by May and construction