{"id":11545,"date":"2012-08-08T09:37:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T14:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=11545"},"modified":"2012-08-08T09:37:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T14:37:22","slug":"lee-alternative-high-school-to-remain-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/08\/lee-alternative-high-school-to-remain-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Alternative High <BR>School to Remain Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/a-lehigh-acres-charter-school-contract-may-end\/img_20120801_104605\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11253\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11253\" title=\"IMG_20120801_104605\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_20120801_104605-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_20120801_104605-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_20120801_104605-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_20120801_104605.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A decision to close Lee Alternative High School was introduced during last week&#8217;s school board meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Problems with the school started when the district uncovered it was awarding diplomas to students who didn&#8217;t meet graduation requirements.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The overall agreement would voluntarily close Richard Milburn Academy in Fort Myers immediately and in fact that process is already underway voluntarily,&#8221; said Dr. Joseph Burke, the Lee County Superintendent.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Voluntarily because the academy responded to district allegations with this proposal: to transfer some of its students to Lee Alternative Charter High in Lehigh Acres. A school also on the chopping block if it doesn&#8217;t meet district standards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our hope would be that they would meet all the compliance requirements that we have asked for,&#8221; added Burke.<\/p>\n<p>For now, the Lee Alternative High School will remain open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decision to close Lee Alternative High School was introduced during last week&#8217;s school board meeting. Problems with the school started when the district uncovered it was awarding diplomas to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}