April 2011: Interest in Sci Academy exceeds the number of seats available August 2011: The 2011-2012 school year opens with a new special education program: Essential Skills.
January 2014: Troy Simon, Sci Academy Class of 2012, introduces First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House College Opportunity Summit.
[2] In 2014, a Better Education Support Team coalition joined more than 30 students and their relatives in filing a complaint against Collegiate Academies that its disciplinary policies were so severe that they bordered on child abuse and violated federal civil rights laws.
It trains us for the military, orworse [sic], for jail.In addition, students complained that they lacked textbooks or even a library, and that the material being taught was below grade level.
[2][9] Louisiana Department of Education issued a notice on January 6, 2016, that George Washington Carver Collegiate had violated a special-education student's rights when the school suspended him for a full month.