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A handful of new programs and course work were formally approved Wednesday in a regular meeting of the Ohio Hi-Point school board.
Effective with the 2016-17 school year, Hi-Point will begin to phase in five new programs including: professional skills; collision repair; school publications; child development and parenting; and a school-to-work course that requires students to maintain a paid job during their time at school.
The professional skills course will, “learn and practice work-related skills necessary for entering, competing and advancing in a changing work world. Students will learn personal characteristics that are required for success in the workplace,” according to a course description.
School publications is a course for aspiring graphic designers and multi-media marketers. Collision repair is designed for students with an apt for automotive technology and repair, and child development and parenting is a course designed for students interested in early childhood education.
Hi-Point administrators also have announced a transition from broad stroke programs to academic courses in an effort to make more college credits available to students.
Hi-Point administrators have also announced a half-million dollar renovation and upgrades for the animal management technology program to be completed in time for the 2017-18 school year.
A new animal surgical center is planned to be part of that renovation/addition to the program, according to project plans.
Bids for that project are expected to go out in June.
Read complete story in Thursday’s Examiner.
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