ITT-Tech's "Early Career Academy" enrolls high school students at Indianapolis campus

Want to worry about the future of our children? ITT-Tech is trying to bust into the charter school market.

The Indianapolis ITT-Tech college campus has one of the lowest graduate rates of all their campuses, 17% for their college programs, as reported on the DOE College Navigator website http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=itt+tech&s=IN&id=151519.

Now there are 14 high school students there as well, according to Indiana's superintendent of public instruction. http://compass.doe.in.gov/dashboard/overview.aspx?type=school&id=2562. Unfortunately, the superintendent's website has no data for any of the performance metrics that are available for state schools, possibly due to small size of Early Career Academy and how new it is.

On ITT-Tech's high school website they say " The Early Career Academy is a career-focused high school program for grades 11 and 12 where students have the opportunity to earn their high school diploma and an associate degree upon graduation. ITT Tech is one of the nation's leading providers of associate degrees in technology-oriented fields. The Early Career Academy students will have access to some of the facilities and services available to ITT Tech's postsecondary students at the campus where the charter school is located." https://www.earlycareeracademy.com/about.cfm

Students are only 6 miles from ITT-Tech's corporate headquarters in Indianapolis. Lunch time visits with CEO Modany??

I have not dug into this whole charter school movement, but can see from ITT-Tech info that the students don't have to pay tuition. But I doubt the credits will count as as Associate Degree that will transfer to state colleges. Lots of questions need to be asked about the effect of this school on young peoples' future.

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The "academy" helps to boost campus enrollment & lock in future students, while giving students access to career-oriented courses. At our campus, we zoomed from around 400 students to nearly 700 in a few years, yet HQ mostly constantly complained/threatened how poorly we were doing in reaching a goal of 1000..of course it's the local staff's fault....A termination parade of new directors, deans, instructors, recruiting managers, etc accomplished nothing. Nursing alone probably had 4 chairs in 3 years. Then they largely terminated full-time instructors, giving the responsibility to chairs. Then, cut down chairs, making those remaining responsible for more. Even HQ has had its share of shake-ups. Now the parking lot is near empty & we are lucky to have 250 students.

One of the founders of the Early Career Academy is Gary Carlson of gCarlson. Mr. Carlson was a VP for ITT Educational Services then worked for its accreditor, ACICS.

Indianapolis is not the only place that ITT Tech (ESI) planned for charter schools.................................http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2014/12/14/369925385/a-for-profit-college-tries-the-charter-school-market

You would think that someone would be concerned about ITT Tech (and other predatory for-profit schools) getting into non-profit charter schools. Haven't heard anyone complain. One explanation: Indiana is a Republican state and Vin Weber is on the ITT Educational Services Board.

About that "Associate Degree" these students get: "College level credits earned by ECA graduates pursuant to the articulation agreement with ITT Technical Institute are unlikely to transfer to another postsecondary educational institution."

https://www.earlycareeracademy.com/consumerInfo.cfm

How can ITT-Tech be allowed to call whatever document these students get a college degree, if the credits are worthless?

No doubt these students will be encouraged to jump right into a Bachelor program at the same campus, for a cost of $50,000! Shut this place down before that can happen!

What is wrong with this picture? The nursing school, located at this same Indiana campus, is not accepting new enrollments due to state nursing board suspension. ITT-Tech has pattern of failure with its nursing programs.

This charter high school had to be approved by someone. Will responsible adults step up to protect young people?

Maybe the high school students will get the low down on ITT-Tech by the nursing students. Nursing students have filed lots of complaints with nursing board. This plan may backfire for ITT-Tech. Next up, pissed off high school students posting videos to youtube?

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