The recent commencement ceremony for Miami-Dade Acceleration Academies (MDAA) turned out to be very much a family affair.

Bryanna Olalde is a Carolina Shores Acceleration Academy OG, one of the first students to enroll at the academy when it opened in the fall of 2023.

Acceleration Academies of Ector County (EAA) celebrated its newest class of graduates with shouts of joy, tears of gratitude and words of inspiration.

As a Mexican-American, my Latina heritage has long evoked pride and a deep sense of belonging to a rich culture with a heart-centered, familia primero (“family first”) approach. But it wasn’t always that way.

Bethel Acceleration Academies celebrated its most recent class of graduates, young learners who pushed through adversity to write a new chapter for their adult lives.

Two years ago, Mako Velez had given up hope of earning a high school diploma and was prepared to settle for a GED. But one night when she and her family sat down for dinner, the phone rang.

If you’ve ever asked yourself, “Do you need a high school diploma?” the answer is a big yes!

On any given day in the United States, more than 2 million young people who should be building their futures are instead seeing limited horizons because they dropped out of high school. In hopes of giving these young Americans a last chance at a diploma, Dr. Joseph Wise and a group of reform-minded...

In 2014, Hannah Merritt was a high school dropout, a teen mom and a young woman who knew she needed to get her life on track — not only for herself but also for her children.