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Keeping Them All
Dropout Prevention and Recovery Update for the
Board June 2008
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Review of Major Initiatives
Prevention Recovery

• Immediate Assistance and Recovery
• Tracking students to invite them back
• Increasing access to GED for NNPS students
• Prevention Strategies
• Early identification intervention for students
  at risk
• Multiple opportunities for credit recovery
• Building Capacity for Adult Education
• Dropout Recovery Centers
• Workforce Development Links

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Immediate Assistance Immediate Recovery
Prevention Recovery

• Tracking students and inviting them back
• 346 Students re-entered as of June 6, 2008
• 134 (39) - Traditional School
• 90 (26) - Alternative School
• 122 (35) - GED Program
• Increasing GED entry for NNPS students
• 388 Students assessed as of June 6, 2008
• 343 (88.5) - Enrolled in GED (up from 252 last
  year)
• 45 (11.5) - Selected another program
• 102 GED credentials already earned (up from 79
  last year)

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Prevention Strategies Creating
Opportunities
Prevention Recovery

• Early Identification Intervention
• Individual learning plans for middle school
  students with risk factors (new initiative this
  year)
• Transition programming to accelerate over-age
  middle school students (new initiative this year)
• Credit Recovery
• 204 students served through on-line credit
  recovery courses (up from 88 last year)
• 147 seniors graduated as a result of success in
  evening courses

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Building Capacity to Serve Adults and our
Community
Prevention Recovery

• Two Dropout Recovery Centers
• Construction is underway
• Staffing is in progress
• Grant awards are pending
• Links to Workforce Development
• SNAP Center status is confirmed
• Recruitment through the Peninsula Workforce
  Development Center has begun
• Middle College concept is in development

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In The Last Dropout, author Bill Milliken
asserts that, the community must weave a safety
net around its children in a way thats personal,
accountable, and coordinated. NNPS is
building that web.
Prevention Recovery

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