Last week the Cobb Board of Education approved the creation of the Cobb Career Academy, a magnet program that will provide a career tech pathway for students. 
The $14.5 million academy will be built on the campus of Osborne High School, which is undergoing a rebuild, and is slated to be completed by May 2020.
The academy is projected to accommodate 500 students as an extension of Cobb’s current Career, Technology, and Agriculture Educational programs.
More than 36,000 students participated in CTAE classes last year, according to the Cobb County School District.
“Our CTAE programs are not only preparing students for choice-filled lives through career opportunities, but clearly, they already having a positive impact on our county’s economic development, and they have yet to graduate from high school,” said Jennifer Lawson, Cobb Schools Chief Academic Officer, who briefed board members on the academy plans before their vote.
Cobb Career Academy students will be considered Osborne students—much like those attending the STEM magnet at Wheeler are Wheeler students—and they will be able to participate in work-based learning, dual enrollment, and advanced placement, among other benefits.
The academy will be built by Carroll Daniel Construction Co., with the funding coming from sales tax revenues in the Cobb Education SPLOST IV collection period.
In addition to the Wheeler STEM program, the other magnets in Cobb schools are at Campbell (International Baccalaureate), Kennesaw Mountain (math, science and technology), North Cobb (international studies), Pebblebrook (performing arts) and South Cobb (research and medical sciences).
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Its been over 4 years that the SPLOST for $30 Milion was approved by voters and we now get half a loaf by 2020. What has taken so long? why only 500 students when it was promoted as “county-wide.”