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Hi - in New Mexico districts, all 18-21 year old programs
are part of their home districts, although "based" in
community rather than school campuses. When the
postschool followup surveys are done, those who've exited
(typically graduated with a diploma - we have 3 pathways
to our regular diploma for students with IEPs) from those
18-21 year old programs are included just like all other
exiters.
Ginger
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:57:20 -0500
"Jane Fields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Greetings! I am working with Jayne Spain and others at
the MN Department of
Education on their postschool follow-up system. So, I
appreciate all of the
great input into the question posed yesterday (by Jayne
Spain from MN
through Jane Falls)!
However, I am still wondering how states are actually
including students in
18-21 year old programs in their postschool follow-up
system. Would you be
willing to describe the "nuts-and-bolts" of how you go
about including all
exiters (graduates, dropouts, age outs) into your actual
implementation of
your follow-up systems? For example, how are you
sampling the students so
that there's no overlap between the 18-21 year old
programs and home
districts (in MN, students are counted in their home
district, even if
they're participating in an 18-21 year old program)?
How do you provide
program information back to districts whose students are
accessing other
programs? Etc.
Thanks! Jane Fields
Jane L.S. Fields, Ph.D.
Institute on Community Integration
University of Minnesota
150 Pillsbury Drive SE
13 Pattee Hall
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612-625-0350 (phone)
612-624-9344 (fax)
Ginger Blalock, Ph.D.
Project Director, Statewide Transition Initiatives
Board President, Lifework Learning Inc.
213 Ortega Rd., NE
Albuquerque, N.M. 87113
505/400-3992 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
