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Career and Professional (CAP) Academies

This past legislative session, Senate Bill 1232 became law. “The Florida Career and Professional Education Act was created to provide a statewide planning partnership between the business and education communities in order to attract, expand and retain targeted, high-value industry and to sustain a strong, knowledge-based economy.”

The purpose of the act is to improve secondary academic performance by providing a rigorous and relevant education, provide coursework that articulates to postsecondary coursework and/or industry certification, support local and regional economic development, respond to Florida’s workforce needs, and provide access to high-wage and high-demand careers.

The Career And Professionals Academy (CAP) is a spin-off of the former Vocational/Technical Education curriculum. Now the focus is on high wage-high demands jobs for our workforce. CAP allows students to select a pathway that is relevant to their future, yet maintaining the rigor of traditional academic courses.

All DCPS high school students now have a wonderful opportunity to become engaged in a career focused curriculum. Currently, our high schools offer a wide variety of choices to prepare them for the journey of their lives.

Florida’s A++ plan went into affect this fall. According to Business Florida “Beginning in 2011, when the first A++ students graduate, Florida high school diplomas will show a specific major, states Dr. Cheri Pierson Yecke,  Chancellor of K-12 Public Schools.”

“This is not a certificate of mastery,” she says. Rather, it is a visible indication of a higher-than average level of expertise in a particular subject or skill, such as culinary arts, communications or computer programming.”

A great aspect of CAP is that high school students may earn credits from technical education centers. Dual enrollment programs allow a student to earn credit toward graduation from a local high school, along with certification from a technical center in specific workplace skills, such as welding, information technology or practical nursing.