Prescription for success

From accounting to welding, the School District of Lee County’s Career and Technical Academies program offers a prescription for an understaffed trade and technical workforce. In all, there are 33 career academies spread throughout high schools in Lee County, offering students in each attendance zone a magnet-style option to college preparatory education.

Now comes something new: this summer, for the first time in the program’s history, 12 rising seniors in the Medical Academy at Cape Coral High School will shadow pharmacists at Walgreen’s stores. Each will earn 60 hours of field experience, which will apply toward their state certification.