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Re-Engaging Dropouts: Local Innovations & New Opportunities for Federal Policy

Re-Engaging Dropouts: Local Innovations & New Opportunities for Federal Policy. April 4, 2014. @ AYPF_Tweets # aypfevents. Promising developments in Dropout Re-Engagement. Andrew O. Moore, Senior Fellow Institute for Youth, Education, and Families National League of Cities

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Re-Engaging Dropouts: Local Innovations & New Opportunities for Federal Policy

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  1. Re-Engaging Dropouts: Local Innovations & New Opportunities for Federal Policy April 4, 2014 @AYPF_Tweets #aypfevents

  2. Promising developments in Dropout Re-Engagement Andrew O. Moore, Senior Fellow Institute for Youth, Education, and Families National League of Cities Supported by the C.S. Mott Foundation and the Annie E. Casey Foundation April 4, 2014

  3. Responses to dropout rates • Address chronic absence as key precondition • Early warning systems & interventions • Middle school and 9th grade • Ongoing high school reform • Engagement, dual enrollment strategies • Expansion of accelerated / on track options and other alternative settings • Recovery and re-engagement

  4. Dropout ReengagementSpreading Across U.S.

  5. Working Definition: Reengagement Center/Program • Staffed portal • Operates at the citywide or school district level • Provides one-stop outreach, assessment, referral, re-enrollment, and continued support services • Restores educationally disconnected youth and young adults to best fit options to complete credentials

  6. Policy Platforms Management Role Funding Sources • School district • Intermediary / NGO • City government • Community college • Combinations of above • School district, community college per-pupil funding • Foundation • Workforce development • Federal HSGI grants • State government – two states • Child welfare • In kind: VISTAs

  7. Range of Approaches • Physical “one stop” center • Deployed staffing model • NGO contracts with school districts • Center co-located with alternative school

  8. Re-engagement Ecosystem

  9. Washington StateOpen Doors Youth Reengagement • Combines dropout outreach and assessment functions with alternative education at one site • Began with three pilots; 19 additional programs • GRAVITY High School- Regional school district, consortium model • iGRAD - partnership between Kent School District and Green River Community College – shopping mall • Expanded Gateway to College program at Lake Washington Institute of Technology

  10. Online “Drop In” Campaigns: Now in Denver, Boulder, & Aurora, Colorado

  11. Measuring effectiveness andimpact: common indicators Results Process / Demographics • Credits earned once re-enrolled • Stick rate/ persistence (first year completion) • Graduation / GED completion • Initial contact/engagement • Race, ethnicity, gender • Child welfare system involvement

  12. Aggregating Results: Reengagement in 13 U.S. Cities,School Years 2012-2013 Initial outreach: 41,000 Referral to re-enrollment opportunity: 10,000 Confirmed re-enrollments: 6,000 “Stick rate” / persistence: 73%

  13. Los Angeles Unified School District Pupil Services City Partnership

  14. 1.2 million students did not graduate from high school in 2011 lost lifetime earnings for that class of dropouts alone total $154 billion1 1 in 10 U.S. high schools is a dropout factory2 Dropout: A National Problem 1Alliance for Excellent Education, The High Cost of High School Dropouts (2011) 2Balfanz and Legters (2004)

  15. Dropouts by Ethnicity

  16. Annual Dropouts by Grade

  17. City of Los Angeles 100, 000 Youth between the ages of 16-24 Out of school and Out of work 1 in 5

  18. Finding a solution • City of Los Angeles sought collaboration with Pupil Services Dropout Recovery Efforts • Los Angeles EWDD realigned Workforce Investment Funds to serve as a dropout recovery model • New formula required agencies to serve 70% out of school youth and 30% in school youth. • Released RFP that included the placement of an LAUSD PSA Counselor at every site

  19. Workforce Innovation Fund • City was awarded $12 million to develop a Dropout Recovery and Career Pathways model • Los Angeles Reconnections Career Academy • Addition of 3 PSA Counselors • Targets students age 16-24 • Career Pathways • Health Care • Green Technology • Construction

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