Scope
Through collaborative efforts with communities, parents, businesses, and schools The Committee for Academic Excellence endeavors to develop premiere educational and community facilities that will:

• Provide early childhood students with a high-quality, strong foundation of learning that will negate the need for preventative/remedial programs at the middle and high school level.
• Provide secondary school students with the tools, skills and resources necessary to reach their full academic potential.
• Provide disadvantaged adult members of the community with equitable access to technology, adult literacy and remedial programs and integrated career planning that include skills training and developmental services that increase job marketability.
• Provide family enrichment programs and seminars that will help prepare and effectively influence student outcomes at home, school and in the community.
• Provide early childhood teachers and providers with the education, training, skills and opportunities necessary to provide high-quality early childhood education.

Delivery
In 2003, delivery of services was made possible by a partnership with Kid’s Community College® - Lake St. Charles campus, which will provides a holistic educational approach based on Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Theory and respects each child’s individual learning modality by recognizing personal ability based on age and developmental appropriateness in the areas of cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development.

The success and quality of this program immediately gained recognition and endorsements from Kid’s Community College® parents, the Hillsborough County School Board, the School Readiness Coalition, Human Capital Intelligence, Positive Parenting and several faith-based organizations.

Based on this successful model, the CAE intends to fully realize its mission by building a $1.2M Southeast Tampa facility that will house a Kid’s Community College® campus, a Community Services and Technology Center and a public charter school for the 2005-06 school year (pending HCSB approval).