Dexter: Program targets at-risk students
Bangor Daily News, May 14, 2007
(excerpt) The Tri-County Technical Center has proposed a program that could reduce dropout rates by offering younger high school students who founder more of a hands-on education.
The latest state data on dropout rates available to local officials showed that the center’s sending school districts — SAD 4 in Guilford, SAD 41 in Milo, SAD 68 in Dover-Foxcroft, SAD 46 in Dexter, SAD 48 in Newport and the Greenville school system — had much higher rates than the statewide average.
In 2004-05, these school districts had a combined dropout rate of 4.71 percent, compared with a state rate of 2.78 percent that year.
Those statistics were cause to explore alternative ways to educate and motivate students at risk at an earlier age, according to Nicholas Vafiades, the center’s director.
The proposed pretechnical program, conceived during a planning session, would do just that by offering certain freshmen and sophomores additional curriculum based on counseling, academics and community.
Under the concept, the students would alternate days between the new program and their regular classes in their districts.
(excerpt) The Tri-County Technical Center has proposed a program that could reduce dropout rates by offering younger high school students who founder more of a hands-on education.
The latest state data on dropout rates available to local officials showed that the center’s sending school districts — SAD 4 in Guilford, SAD 41 in Milo, SAD 68 in Dover-Foxcroft, SAD 46 in Dexter, SAD 48 in Newport and the Greenville school system — had much higher rates than the statewide average.
In 2004-05, these school districts had a combined dropout rate of 4.71 percent, compared with a state rate of 2.78 percent that year.
Those statistics were cause to explore alternative ways to educate and motivate students at risk at an earlier age, according to Nicholas Vafiades, the center’s director.
The proposed pretechnical program, conceived during a planning session, would do just that by offering certain freshmen and sophomores additional curriculum based on counseling, academics and community.
Under the concept, the students would alternate days between the new program and their regular classes in their districts.
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