“Alta Vista’s Eagle Academy summer program has increased and improved since its start in 2012, and Barbara Shirley, the principal, predicted another successful summer at today’s Sarasota County School Board workshop.
The summer education program, for entering kindergarten to third grade students, aims to reduce the loss of learning and loss of learning retention during the summer months, especially for low-income families. In its first year, the program had 62 students in entering kindergarten participate; every year since, the program has added a grade and now predict 350 students this summer.”