Forging ahead: SEMCA is not your father’s trade school

Forging ahead: SEMCA is not your father’s trade school

When students arrive for their first day of classes at Southeast Michigan Construction Academy in Sterling Heights, Keith Ledbetter is sure they will be pleasantly surprised by what they see. “It’s a big place,” Ledbetter said proudly while providing a tour of the new academy that already has a student enrollment of more than 800 starting in the fall. “We went from one small space in Madison Heights to two buildings with more than 100,000 square…