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Abstract:
As
a choice high school program, North Country Alternative Charter
School serves up to 53 high school students in two centers, divided
into morning and afternoon sessions and two classrooms per center
(2 teachers, 15 students per teacher/session).
Once the student is accepted and enrolled, an individualized learning
plan is developed. This ILP takes into consideration the student's
learning ability, needs, motivation, and competency goals.
After
one year of operation, NCCS will be a graduating 21 students, 9
had dropped out of school, going back to 2001.
At
mid-year the average grade in math was 2.2 grade levels:
vocabulary 1.02 grade levels: writing 1.4 grade levels. This is
a serious academic recovery school.
The
charter school serves 26 school districts comprising of 9 school
Administrative units, covering 4,000 square miles. The North Country
Charter school is supported by the participating school districts
and Superintendent as well as local business.
The
North Country Charter School is a huge success and had over 150
applications for 2005-06.
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