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State Performance Plan 2005-2012 - Part B - Arkansas Department Of Education Page 12

Arkansas Department of Education Special Education Unit

Part B State Performance Plan

website and assist in an update of the Arkansas Driver’s License Study Guide to be posted at

Graduation from high school with a high school diploma begins with the first nine weeks of instruction

during the 9

grade with subsequent credit earned during the first semester based upon the child’s

performance. Today all students are expected to graduate from high school. Yet, hundreds of thousands of

students in the United States leave school early each year without a diploma (National Center for Education

Statistics, 2002). Researchers have identified ninth grade as the most critical point to intervene and prevent

students from losing motivation, failing and dropping out of school. According to the 2005-06 dropout data

from the State’s Student Information System (SIS), 1,018 ninth graders did not re-enroll for the 2006-07

school year.

Based on the present data, a longitudinal cohort of ninth graders will be established beginning with the

2007-08 school year and will be known as the Changing Outcomes through Retention Elements (C.O.R.E.)

project. C.O.R.E will include all public school districts, open-enrollment charter schools, and state-operated

educational programs. Student performance data will be collected through the SIS in November 2007 for the

identification of students failing one or more classes during the initial grading period. Districts, working

with the P.O.I.S.E. Technical Advisory Teams, will administer universal interventions (Response to

Intervention) for a period of time not to exceed 10 weeks. A second student performance data collection will

be conducted through the SIS on February 15, 2008 to identify students having failed the semester. Once

students have been identified as failing the semester, districts will administer targeted interventions

(Intervention Prevention) with additional individualized student-centered supports not to exceed 20 weeks.

All interventions will be tracked to determine effectiveness to student performance. P.O.I.S.E. Technical

Advisory Teams will coordinate interventions based upon disaggregated data.

State partners in secondary and postsecondary education will continue to implement the

FFY 2007

NASET Self-Assessment Tool planning priorities: Youth Development and Youth Leadership; and Family

Involvement. An analysis of the self-assessments will be conducted to provide strategies to address the

localized needs of the students referred through CIRCUIT. Additional local school district and

postsecondary partners will be added as these initiatives continue to be deployed and implemented

statewide. The P.O.I.S.E. Technical Advisory Teams will implement the Changing Outcomes through

Retention Elements (C.O.R.E.) project.

Activities planned by the P.O.I.S.E Team for 2007-08 school year include:

• Launching the poised for graduation web domain

• Launching the third awareness campaign through the P.O.I.S.E. website

giving access to School districts, state level stakeholders,

parents and youth to assist with effective resources and strategies for a successful academic school

experience

• Brochures will be redistributed on a web-based access through

• Providing evidence-based practices and information based upon researched areas of student

competencies, further sub-grouped into a similar alignment with high school redesign via the

P.O.I.S.E website ( ). Surveys will be conducted as needed via

the ADE-SEU website survey link

• Facilitating Model teams in partnership with IDEA Data & Research will design the evaluation for

C.O.R.E., the 9

grade data collection

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