leadership in high schools

Where is this student?  Percentages of students dropping out without an IEP/504 are the students that typically should be referred two or more years to Alternative Education before the actual registration for a the GED exam or formally dropping out from High School.  The statistics for this population lies embedded in individual school report cards showing factors like poverty indicators, graduation cohort data, drop out data and  student incarceration.  The beginning of 2008 will involve the identification of school district data and conversations with district personnell aimed at identifying and flushing out the true Alt. Ed. student –  who is crying out for help, needs a small specialized school program aimed at meeting both academic and future work skills.  Study teams comprising of teachers and administration will attempt to draw hypotheses from NYS school data available to the public via Internet access.  This research driven work will form the basis of discussion with Alternative Education’s regional council members who comprise of counselors, principals and CSE chairs.   I continue to question the numbers of students we are not serving within a population that I believe is grossly under represented within general education.   This year within Southern Chautauqua County only 30 odd students have been referred from  the 8/9 High Schools that Erie 2 BOCES serves (in this region,) who meet the criteria of Alternative Education student markers.  The rest of the student population 20+ is comprised of Special Ed classified and 504 Plan students who have Alt. Ed. as their entry point because this is the least restricted educational program. 

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