Changing Face of Continuation Schools 2018-19
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The Changing Face of Continuation Schools Milisav Ilic, Ed.D. Administrative Director, Instructional Support Corona-Norco Unified School District President - Educational Options Council, Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) Past President - California Continuation Education Association (CCEA) [email protected] !2 Today we are going to discuss: 1. What is a Continuation High School? 2. Why Continuation High Schools need to be included in the Local Control Funding Formula? 3. How the DASS and Local Control Accountability Plan is going to keep districts accountable for Continuation High School performance data? 4. What can lead to improvements and success in Continuation Education? !3 1. What is a Continuation High School? (The best kept secret in town) !4 “Whoever had the idea that one person could take twenty or thirty or even ten continuation students and instruct them in the things they should know and make them like it must have been the champion day-dreamer of the age.” !6 “They [continuation students] represent the moron and the genius, the social misfit and the socially unfit, the rich man's misunderstood daughter and the poor man's understood son, together with the bewildered and groping foreign born.” !7 “I don't know of anyone in America who isn't represented, nor anyone in America capable of handling them as a single group.” !8 G.G. Trout, 1937 !9 • alternative high school diploma program • for students who are sixteen years of age or older • behind in credits and are at risk of not graduating • need flexible schedule because of job outside of school California Department of Education • family needs or other circumstances • must spend at least 15 hours per week or 3 hours per day at school • take required courses for graduation • receive guidance and career counseling • ind. study, job-placement services, and concurrent enrollment in community college California Department of Education WHO CAN ENROLL IN CONTINUATION? 48200 48200. Each person between the ages of 6 and 18 years not exempted under the provisions of this chapter or Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 48400) is subject to compulsory full-time education. Each person subject to compulsory full-time education and each person subject to compulsory continuation education not exempted under the provisions of Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 48400) shall attend the public full-time day school or continuation school or classes and for the full time designated as the length of the school day by the governing board of the school district in which the residency of either the parent or legal guardian is located and each parent, guardian, or other person having control or charge of the pupil shall send the pupil to the public full-time day school or continuation school or classes and for the full time designated as the length of the school day by the governing board of the school district in which the residence of either the parent or legal guardian is located. Unless otherwise provided for in this code, a pupil shall not be enrolled for less than the minimum school day established by law. I THOUGHT ONLY 16-18 YEAR OLDS 48400 48400. All persons 16 years of age or older and under 18 years of age, not otherwise exempted by this chapter, shall attend upon special continuation education classes maintained by the governing board of the high school district in which they reside, or by the governing board of a neighboring high school district, for not less than four 60-minute hours per week for the regularly established annual school term. Such minimum attendance requirement of four 60-minute hours per week may be satisfied by any combination of attendance upon special continuation education classes and regional occupation centers or programs. PARTIAL CREDITS 48645.5 (a) Each public school district and county office of education shall accept for credit full or partial coursework satisfactorily completed by a pupil while attending a public school, juvenile court school, or nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency. The coursework shall be transferred by means of the standard state transcript. If a pupil completes the graduation requirements of his or her school district of residence while being detained, the school district of residence shall issue to the pupil a diploma from the school the pupil last attended before detention or, in the alternative, the county superintendent of schools may issue the diploma. (b) A pupil shall not be denied enrollment or readmission to a public school solely on the basis that he or she has had contact with the juvenile justice system, including, but not limited to: (1) Arrest. (2) Adjudication by a juvenile court. (3) Formal or informal supervision by a probation officer. (4) Detention for any length of time in a juvenile facility or enrollment in a juvenile court school. (c) Pursuant to subparagraph (B) of paragraph (8) of subdivision (f) of Section 48853.5, a pupil who has had contact with the juvenile justice system shall be immediately enrolled in a public school. (d) If a pupil completes the statewide coursework requirements for graduation specified in Section 51225.3 while attending a juvenile court school, the county office of education shall issue to the pupil a diploma of graduation and shall not require the pupil to complete coursework or other requirements that are in addition to the statewide coursework requirements. (Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 464, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2017.) • PARTIAL CREDITS 49069.5 49069.5 (e) As part of the transfer process described under subdivisions (c) and (d), the local educational agency shall compile the complete educational record of the pupil, including a determination of seat time, full or partial credits earned, current classes and grades, immunization and other records, and, if applicable, a copy of the pupil’s plan adopted pursuant to Section 504 of the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. Sec. 794) or individualized education program adopted pursuant to the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1400 et seq.). PHYSICAL EDUCATION 51241(C)(1) (c) The governing board of a school district or the office of the county superintendent of a county may grant permanent exemption from courses in physical education if the pupil complies with any one of the following: (1) Is 16 years of age or older and has been enrolled in grade 10 for one academic year or longer. (2) Is enrolled as a postgraduate pupil. (3) Is enrolled in a juvenile home, ranch, camp, or forestry camp school where pupils are scheduled for recreation and exercise pursuant to the requirements of Article 24 (commencing with Section 880) of Chapter 2 of Part 1 of Division 2 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. (d) A pupil exempted under paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) or paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) shall not attend fewer total hours of courses and classes if he or she elects not to enroll in a physical education course than he or she would have attended if he or she had elected to enroll in a physical education course. 35160. On and after January 1, 1976, the governing board of any school district may initiate and carry on any program, activity, or may otherwise act in any manner which is not in conflict with or inconsistent with, or preempted by, any law and which is not in conflict with the purposes for which school districts are established. California Education Code 35160.1. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that school districts, county boards of education, and county superintendents of schools have diverse needs unique to their individual communities and programs. Moreover, in addressing their needs, common as well as unique, school districts, county boards of education, and county superintendents of schools should have the flexibility to create their own unique solutions. (b) In enacting Section 35160, it is the intent of the Legislature to give school districts, county boards of education, and county superintendents of schools broad authority to carry on activities and programs, including the expenditure of funds for programs and activities which, in the determination of the governing board of the school district, the county board of education, or the county superintendent of schools are necessary or desirable in meeting their needs and are not inconsistent with the purposes for which the funds were appropriated. It is the intent of the Legislature that Section 35160 be liberally construed to effect this objective. California Education Code Alternative Education Programs in California 2. Why Continuation High Schools need to be included in the Local Control Funding Formula? !20 To expand the number of “beating-the-odds” schools, the state needs to fund these schools according to a formula that realistically reflects the instructional and academic engagement challenges such schools face. CHANGING PLACES, Edley Jr. and Ruiz de Velasco, University of California Press Berkeley, California, 2010 !21 LCFF Allocation Formula Concentration Supplemental Additional 50% of Additional 20% of base grant based on Base Funding base grant unduplicated count • Unduplicated above 55% of district count: Low enrollment Funds allocated by Income (LI), grade level spans, English Language K-3, 4-6, 7-8, 9-12, Learners (EL) and plus add-on for K-3 Foster Youth (FY) & 9-12 All districts equal !22 Living and family arrangements Continuation students surveyed on the California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS) are three times more likely than students surveyed in comprehensive high schools to be in foster care or living with a relative other than a parent (11 percent versus 4 percent for eleventh-graders in the statewide survey) WestEd researchers found that all students in the CHKS sample who reported living in transitory arrangements (for example, in a shelter, on the street, in a car or van) were in a continuation school or in a community day school (for expelled students) CHANGING PLACES, Edley Jr.