Posted on February - 15 - 2012

Reasons behind Burgeoning Enrollments at Alford High School

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Alford High School is one such institution that is regarded among the best when it comes to online high schooling. Being one of the pioneering high schools to give an online high school diploma, Alford High School has developed and introduced some of the most innovative process in online education to make e-learning as easy and flexible as possible.

With the advent of such new procedures and processes, the process of e-learning has become remarkably simple and effective. This has led to a big wave of students coming in to join the ranks of many already present and has led to an enormous rise in the number of individuals associated with the online academic world.

The enrollment rate at Alford High School’s diploma program has shown a similar trend but at an accelerated pace. T

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Posted on January - 18 - 2012

GL Homes finds spot for west Boynton charter school; preserve-land plan discontinued

WEST PALM BEACH — The battle to build a charter school on preserve land inside one of the county’s last agricultural enclaves came to an abrupt end Tuesday, after a Sunrise-based homebuilder said it had found a 14-acre site for the project inside one of its future developments.

The announcement by GL Homes means that Palm Beach County commissioners will no longer have to consider a controversial change to the county’s long-term growth plan that would have allowed the school to rise in the 20,500-acre Agricultural Reserve west of Boynton Beach and Delray Beach.

Commissioners last month authorized county planners to start working on the change and were scheduled to hold a public hearing on it later this year. But the seven-member board on Tuesday unanimously agreed to withdraw its request after GL Homes said it found a site for the school within its Amestoy project, near the northwest corner of Boynton Beach Boulevard and Lyons Road.

The county has already approved 785 homes as part of the project, which also sits inside the county’s Agricultural Reserve. K

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Posted on December - 07 - 2011

Boynton Beach High School strives to shed a negative image

BOYNTON BEACH — It opened in 2001 as the high school that Boynton Beach officials had wanted for a decade. A decade later, Boynton Beach High School is the high school most local students avoid.

Frustrated city and school district officials attribute the one-third-empty school and its inability to attract a majority of local kids to an bad image based partially on race and economics.

It’s a reputation that’s unwarranted, said former Boynton Beach Mayor Jerry Taylor, one of the city officials who lobbied the state in the 1990s for money to build a high school in his city. It’s a shame because the people there have really worked hard to have a nice school.

This semester, Boynton High has 1,484 students, about 67 percent of its capacity. At the same time, 1,774 students live in Boynton High’s attendance boundary and choose to go to other schools.

Principal Karen Whetsell said she is trying to better market her school to parents in Boynton Beach who are sending their kids elsewhere. T

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Posted on June - 30 - 2011

What is a Hybrid Charter School?

Education Week has published a story on the growth of hybrid charter schools this week.

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Posted on June - 29 - 2011

Catching up on national high school ranks

We did not have room for everything I wanted to include in the big package of lists and stories that make up the new Challenge Index rankings of America’s high schools. I moved the list this year from Newsweek–where we often called it “America’s Best High Schools”– to washingtonpost.com, where its new title is “The High School Challenge.”

My editors were right not to jam in too much material. It is not always easy to find the features that are there. Please consider this a short guide to finding the inside stuff that many readers of this blog crave and that will give them more ammo to fire at me. I also provide below the Catching Up list of local schools with low Advanced Placement passing rates, something my editors and I agreed would work better on my blog.

Use this link to get to the main ranked lists, one for national and one for the Washington area. This link will take you to the Public Elites list, the schools that did not make the main lists because they were too selective. Here is the

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