Summit Handouts

This page contains information about the materials presented at the Graduate Greater Louisville High School Dropout Solutions Summit.

Keynote and Wrap Up Presentations 

Final Group Report Out to the Mayor and Superintendent

Every Child a Graduate, presented by Governor Wise, President, Alliance for Excellent Education. Please e-mail daro.mott@louisvilleky.gov to receive an electronic copy of the powerpoint presentation.

Youth PowerPoint Collage/Slide Show

America's Promise Dropout Prevention Campaign Video 

The Education Pipeline, presented by Carloyn Gatz, Director of the Greater Louisville Project

Short Summit Critique Form

Working Tracks/Session Handouts 

Life Readiness and Education Beyond High School

Agenda

Summary of Ideas from Two Planning Meetings

This PowerPoint presentation discusses the following topics and divides into two sections (Part 1 & Part 2):

• A Not So New Alignment Strategy: High School to College to Life
• Career Awareness of Teachers, Students and Parents
• Counseling Gap: Hopes Versus Reality
• Financing for College: KEES, Pell and Other Sources
• JCPS Freshman Academy
• Framing the Skeleton of a New High School Model

Multiple Pathways/High School Innovation

Agenda
PowerPoint Presentation
Flow Charts: Dropout Versus District
Table Group Instructions
Step it Up System
Emerging Recommendations

Policy Barriers to Graduation

Facilitator Instructions

Possible Policy Issues   

Sections A through H:

A
JCPS Comprehensive School Survey
1995 Attorney General Truancy Opinion 
Kentucky State Laws on Home Schooling
Reference and How to Books for Homeschooling
Sample Documents and Forms
    Sample Syllabus
    Sample Letter of Intent to Homeschool
    Sample Lesson Plan Page
    Attendance Chart
    Scholastic Report
    Academic Excellence Academy
    Subject Planning
    Curriculum Record
    Daily Planner
    Setting Up a Portfolio

State Home School Legal Analysis 
    Illinois
    Indiana                                                                      
    Kentucky    
    Missouri
    Ohio
    Tennessee
    Virginia          
    West Virginia
* reproduced with permission from the Home School Legal Defense Association

Students Originally Enrolled in JCPS 2007-08 Prior to Withdrawal to Home School
Sample Home School Request Letter
HealtheirUs School Challenge
JCPS Free and Reduced Lunch Application

D
The Impact of Budget Cuts on Services to Youth

E
Information Handout

F
Commonwealth Accountability Testing System (CATS) Weights
One Nation, One Test, Scholastic Administrator, Russo, Alexander, March/April 2007
CATS Versus NCLB
What Councils Do

H
Dropout Summit Policy Issues PowerPoint
State Testing Assessments
Supplemental Educational Services as a Consequence of the NCLB Legislatioon: Evaluating its Impact on Student Achievement in a Large Urban District, Munoz, Marco; Potter, Allison; Ross, Steven., Journal for Students Placed At Risk, 13:1-15,2008.

Student Supports

(Update coming soon)