Because the School District of Palm Beach County is committed to providing a world-class education with excellence and equity to empower each student to reach his or her highest potential with the most effective staff to foster the knowledge, skills, and ethics required for responsible citizenship and productive careers, on school opening day, Monday, August 19, 2013, the South Area of Palm Beach County will be the location for the Greenest School in the Galaxy, the new Galaxy E3 Choice School.
Replacing a 53-year old school building, the new Galaxy Elementary School will be a state of the art campus featuring the latest technology of the twenty-first century along with offering an educational curriculum that will invent a new direction for K-5 instruction in Palm Beach County. The school will also aim to be the first LEED Platinum-certified new public school campus in Florida. Platinum is the highest level of LEED certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) which recognizes buildings’ compliance to design, construction and operations according to environmentally friendly practices and standards.
For the press releases containing details of the Galaxy E3 Choice School, please visit http://news.palmbeach.k12.fl.us/pao/
More information appearing on the website reveals that Galaxy Elementary School will be the civic resource for the neighborhood of Boynton Beach where it is located. The area’s public and private schools will be able to schedule tours of the green campus and enjoy the hands-on educational displays.
On the economic front, the new Galaxy Elementary School will support the growing business community of Boynton Beach. As an energy and green demonstration project, the campus with its sustainable features and innovations is expected to attract many visitors every week. The city has prioritized becoming a magnet for sustainable development and green buildings – the Galaxy project at the gateway entrance to Boynton Beach from I-95 will reinforce that objective.
School choice is a term or label given to a wide array of programs offering students and their families alternatives to publicly provided schools, to which students are generally assigned by the location of their family residence. In the United States, the most common option offered by 'school choice' programs are educational voucher programs. These programs offer a given student and their family the option to take a subsidy from public educational funds and put that money towards tuition in private schools. This subsidy may also be accomplished through tax-credit programs. Other 'school choice' options include open enrollment laws that allow students to attend other public schools and charter schools, and homeschooling.
The goal of school choice programs is to give parents more control over their child's education, and to allow parents to pursue the most appropriate learning environments for children. For example school choice may enable parents to choose a school that provides religious instruction for their children; stronger discipline; better foundational skills including reading, writing, mathematics, and science; everyday skills from handling money to farming, et al.
REF: PBCSD (Press Release) Public Affairs Office. April 2013.
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