Another Career Academy, This Time in LA

First a story about Florida creating career academies in high schools, and now another story from the LA Times about a sports medicine program that begins at 6:30 a.m. At 6:32 am, the reporter found 32 bright eyed kids in class, ready to learn.

I think this is a trend worth looking at (I know there are few in the Puget Sound area), since these aren't career and tech schools off by their lonesome somewhere, but schools within a school, if you will. From the enthusiasm expressed by the students in this article, I think it's a perfect way to catch kids that might otherwise fall through the system.

Reading on down in the article, it seems that schools like this have not affected the drop out rate (which I find a bit hard to believe), but that the students who complete the programs do earn more $$ after high school.