Legislature approves healthcare high school in Demopolis
The Alabama Legislature has approved one of the governor’s top priorities.
The Alabama Senate has given final approval for the Alabama School of Healthcare Sciences. The House approved it last month.
Gov. Kay Ivey first proposed this school last year, which would be a residential high school for students interested in health care careers.
The school would be built in Demopolis, at the site of the former New Era Cap Company.
That’s next door to Whitfield Regional Hospital, where students would also receive training and experience.
As Action 8 News has reported, Bloomberg Philanthropies has pledged $26.4 million for the project.
This will be the fourth STEM school of its type in Alabama, but the first in a rural part of the state.
“It would be on par with the other three STEM schools across the state — the Cyber School in Huntsville, the Math and Science in Mobile and the Arts in Birmingham,” Whitfield Regional Hospital CEO Douglas Brewer told Action 8 News in March.
