Innovative Pathways Alternative Education

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Innovative Pathways Alternative Education

• Submitted by Dr. Dan Edwards and Ms. Betty
  Shackleford
• Dr. Carlinda Purcell, Chief Academic Officer
  2008-09

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Current Dropout Recovery Status(For students who
are not enrolled in school)

• 17 ABE Program administered by Frank Logan,
  Career Education, provides a GED equivalency
  certificate after passing a test housed at
  Kensington and is grant funded by DESE.
• 17 Fresh Start (also called Missouri Options)
  housed at Turner Middle Requires an entrance
  examination (TABE) and a high school diploma
  after passing a summative test.
• 15 ACE housed at 5 sites provides 400 slots
  and a high school diploma to students who
  complete the SLPS required course work (also
  provides for 240 afterschool credit recovery
  slots at no cost at 4 locations).

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Current Behavior Modification Status(Type I
discipline offenders)

• High School students are housed in two buildings
  (one North and one South) with a third building
  for middle school students managed by an outside
  contractor.
• SPED students are housed in a fourth location
  managed by an outside contractor.
• Elementary students are housed in two elementary
  buildings (one North and one South) and staffed
  with in-house personnel. This was started in
  February.

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Current Behavior Modification Status(Big Picture
Schools)(Originally developed for Type II
students)

• Elementary housed at Des Peres which is slated to
  close. The enrollment is currently 64.
• Middle housed at Turner Branch slated to close.
  The current enrollment is 67.
• High School housed at Kottmeyer slated to close.
  The current enrollment is 84.
• These are all in-house programs fully staffed by
  SLPS.

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Proposed Dropout Recovery 2009-10

• GED is grant funded at no cost to the district.
• Fresh Start personnel cost and supplies estimated
  for 2009-10
  200
  students at a cost of 1,820,000.00.
• ACE estimated for 2009-10
• 400 Slots _at_ 5200 per slot 2,080,000.00
• Continue ACE as is, but move the two closed
  locations to Roosevelt High School and Northwest
  High School. These moves allow credit recovery in
  those buildings plus Gateway and the Roberts
  building on Kingshighway.

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Proposed Behavior Modification 2009-10 (Type !)

• The Type I in-house is designed to include
  social work and counselor interventions which
  were not inclusive of the contract in past years.
• SPED Type I for 2009-10 for 50 slots at 6850
  342,500.00
• Elementary for 2009-10 for 30 slots a cost of
  273,000.00
• Big Picture for 2009-10 for 200 students at a
  cost of 1,374,100.00
• Middle/ Senior students are housed in two school
  buildings (one North and one South) and staffed
  with in-house personnel. These sites will
  accommodate 400 students at approximately the
  same cost as our contracts.

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Proposed Behavior Modification 2009-10 (Type II)

• Close Big Picture Elementary and combine the
  Middle and High into one location shared with
  another school Dropout Recovery.

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Total Recommendations(2009-10)()

• Eliminate the contract for Type I and move to two
  in-house locations. (One in the North and one in
  concert with the city in the South.) This
  combines middle and high school.
• Continue the elementary in-house system as
  currently operating.
• Close Big Picture Elementary and combine the
  Middle and High into one location shared with
  another school.
• Restructure the In School Suspension Program