Josiah Gadia was in his final semester of high school when the pressures of an unstable home life, the need to hold down a job, and the challenges of schoolwork became too much to bear.

At the Las Vegas branch of Acceleration Academies, Chris Turner proved himself a jack of all trades — and master of many.

When a team of educational experts recently assessed the work Acceleration Academies does to provide young learners with a flexible, personalized path to their high school diplomas, they didn’t just give the growing family of student re-engagement programs a passing grade.

Each month, we take a moment to learn from the educational leaders who bring the Acceleration Academies mission to life, day in and day out. This month, we asked our academy leaders to respond to this prompt: What was a highlight of the first 3 months of 2022 at your academy? Here is what they had...

Rachel Tudela had her first child in January. She loves being a mom and looks forward to sharing her love of sports with her daughter, to helping her grow into her best possible self.

For Antony Perez, a traditional school day was a non-starter. Throughout high school, he was working as a mechanic in his father’s car repair shop, beginning in the morning and laboring until suppertime.

As one of the first graduation candidates to enroll in the newly opened Wichita Acceleration Academies, Lamaria King is already setting a high standard. Her notebook brims with coursework notes and organizational tools, she’s powering through a challenging English course, and she’s already made an...

For Antony Spence, the Covid pandemic couldn’t have come at a worse time. He was already losing ground in high school, falling behind in his studies and feeling socially ill at ease.

Franc Owens has a lot of ground to make up. At 16, he committed a robbery and spent 20 months in a juvenile center. He emerged determined to turn his life around — and is doing that at Miami-Dade Acceleration Academies.