Journal Times: Starting next year, students at Union Grove High School, 3433 S. Colony Ave., are expected to be able to take medical courses, train as nursing assistants and earn college credits through the school’s new “health care academy.”
The academy is one of three academies that school faculty and district administrators have been developing to better prepare students for life after high school, but also to supply the community with the skilled workers that local businesses need.
“(A) payoff for the students is that they’re getting great training and real-world experience before they leave high school, but also the other big benefit isn’t necessarily for students but for meeting the needs of what our area and our surrounding community also needs from us, as an educational system,” explained Stacey Duchrow, the district’s STEM and assessment coordinator as well as high school chemistry teacher.