Georgetown ISD has officially broken ground on their new Future Ready Learning Center.
Students and community members alike participated in the ground breaking on Wednesday, September 14th to celebrate a new educational center aimed at serving students across all ages to the littlest learners and beyond.
“Students will have opportunities to pursue career pathways that they choose,” Dr. Fred Brent, Superintendent for Georgetown Independent School District, told Hello Georgetown. “They will have opportunities to explore new learning and career technical fields, [they] will have opportunities to form partnerships with local businesses, trying to grow a better workforce, opportunities for students to have a unique pathway to high school graduation, and opportunities for families to get their kids started in school earlier than normal by being in our daycare program and our Early Learning Center program.”
Located at 5001 Airport Rd, the learning center will be home to the GISD Health and Wellness Center in partnership with Lone Star Circle of Care, the Bridges program, Richarte High School, the Early Learning Center and several advanced career and technical education programs. The programs will also give students access to industry specific tools, Bretton Schulz, Career and Technical Education Director for Georgetown ISD, said, allowing them to learn using the same real world resources they’ll have in the workforce.
“Right now we’ve got over 21 different, what they call, programs of study,” Bretton Schulz, Career and Technical Education Director for Georgetown ISD, told Hello Georgetown. “So, that’s 21 different things that a kid can learn and go do, and in each of those programs of study, our goal is to prepare a student with an industry based certification, and something that they can have and take with them and be able to go start a career or start a job once they leave school. So, we’re really excited because this is just going to expand those opportunities for those students to have that.”
The Future Ready Learning Center will serve approximately 800 to 1,000 Career and Training Education or CTE students through the course of a normal school week, he added, with students still studying at their respective high schools for part of the day before going to the center for the rest of their day working in their specific technical training program. Additionally, the district said the Bridges program, Richarte High School and the Early Learning Center will all have the ability to double or triple in capacity at the new center.
Projected to open in Fall 2024, funding for the creation of the new Future Ready Learning Center is through the 2021 Bond which voters passed in November 2021.
“We’re just thankful the community chose to approve the bond election that allowed this complex to be built,” Dr. Brent said. “Those funds secured are going to shape the future for the next several generations and we’re just grateful the community chooses to invest in Georgetown ISD.”
Learn more about the bond and the Future Ready Learning Center at https://www.georgetownisd.org/bond.
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