Smart Horizons Career Online Education

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Smart Horizons Career Online Education describes itself as a "private, national online school district". The school district’s core competency is designing, building, and managing affordable, career-based online high schools for students around the world.

Founded in 2010 and located in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Smart Horizons Career Online Education develops career-based high school diploma programs. Smart Horizons Career Online Education offers career-credentialed certificates programs for several in-demand careers, such as Child Care,^[1] Commercial Driving, Criminal Justice, Office Management,^[2] and Homeland Security. All students graduate with both a high school diploma and coursework toward earning a career-credentialed certificate in one of these areas.

Accreditation[]

Smart Horizons Career Online Education is fully accredited as an online school district by Cognia (formerly AdvancED).

Cognia is the national commission that confers the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement (SACS CASI), North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement (NCA CASI), and the Northwest Accreditation Commission (NWAC) accreditation seals.

This means that the Smart Horizons Career Online Education district and all of its schools are Cognia/SACS/NCA/NWAC accredited, and that Smart Horizons Career Online Education is recognized across the nation as a quality school system.

Cognia offers accreditation and certification, assessment, professional learning, and improvement services to institutions and other education providers. As a global nonprofit working in over 80 countries, Cognia serves 36,000 institutions, nearly 25 million students, and five million educators every day.

To learn more about the District Accreditation Process, visit www.cognia.org.

Partnership Programs[]

Smart Horizons Career Online Education designs, builds, and manages career online high schools for the following types of organizations:

• Corporations
• Public Libraries
• Post-Secondary Schools
• Adult & Career Education (K-12)
• Prison Education
• Dropout Prevention
• Workforce & Community-Based Agencies

These partnership programs are designed to develop full-service, branded career online high school programs.

See also[]

• Smart Horizons Career Online High School
• Virtual school

References[]

External links[]

• Business to Watch (Florida Trend, April 2010)
• New Online High School to offer a second chance to High School dropouts (South Florida Business Journal, December 2009)
• Smart Horizons helps students graduate (Pensacola News Journal, November 2009)
• Web high school targets working adults (Pensacola News Journal, May 2010)