Accreditation
Smart Horizons Career Online Education is a candidate for AdvancED District Accreditation.
Smart Horizons Career Online Education, a private school district, delivers affordable, career-based online education to students throughout the world. Students receive both a career-based online high school diploma and a career (credentialed) certificate in the fields of healthcare, early childhood education, transportation services, homeland security, protection services, and office management. The district’s first school, Smart Horizons Career Online High School, is scheduled to launch in May 2010.
AdvancED is the unified organization of the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement (NCA CASI) and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement (SACS CASI). AdvancED provides nationally recognized accreditation for school districts and individual schools and represents 27,000 public and private schools and districts across the United States and in 65 countries worldwide, educating 15 million students.
Using the AdvancED Standards for Quality School Systems as a framework, Smart Horizons Career Online Education will conduct an internal review and engage a broad cross section of representatives from across its district, its school and the broader community in its self-assessment. Following the scheduled internal review (Fall 2010), Smart Horizons Career Online Education will host an AdvancED Quality Assurance Review Team comprised of trained education professionals from across the nation.
Students and community members can learn more about the District Accreditation Process at www.advanc-ed.org
Smart Horizons has been approved as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), 1780 Old Meadow Road, Suite 500 McLean, VA 22102
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