Liberty College and Career Academy CEO Karisa Young accepts a state certification from Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan at the Lt. Governor’s 12th Annual Business and Education Summit at Lanier Technical College in Gainesville in December.
Georgia Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan praised educators and students at Liberty College and Career Academy after they received their Georgia College and Career Academy certification.
In December, Duncan congratulate those who attended the Lt. Governor’s 12th Annual Business and Education Summit at Lanier Technical College in Gainesville.
The Georgia College & Career Academy certification was established by the Office of College and Career Transitions and approved by the Technical College System of Georgia State Board. The process allows college and career academies to demonstrate appropriate levels of student achievement, community sustainability, workforce development and school level governance.
To be certified, an academy must demonstrate how it increases student achievement, provides for dual credit and dual enrollment opportunities, addresses workforce development needs, establishes local governance and autonomy, increases work-based learning opportunities, articulates how collaboration among business, industry, and community stakeholders will advance workforce development, provides evidence to support performance contract renewal and articulates how collaboration among business, industry, and community stakeholders will advance workforce development.
“The focus Georgia has placed on workforce development is second to none across the country,” Duncan said. “The students and teachers at Liberty College and Career Academy have played a vital role in that important part of our economic future. I want to congratulate them on this accomplishment, as well as thank them for their commitment to making Georgia’s future brighter than ever.”