HART DISTRICT PROGRAM TO HELP STUDENTS MAKE GRADE.Byline: Orith Goldberg Staff Writer Eighth-graders who have slipped through the academic cracks will be given an opportunity to catch up to their peers by attending a new transition program into the ninth grade. This fall, the William S William, crown prince of Germany William or Frederick William, 1882–1951, crown prince of Germany, son of William II. In World War I he commanded (1914) an army on the Western Front and was nominal commander in the German attack . Hart Union High School District is expecting 130 to 160 students to attend the Passport Academy, a program geared to provide a boost to eighth-grade students lacking the required credits to progress into high school. School officials are hoping the program will help students who would have had trouble with the transition to high school and who, under a new state law, could have been forced to repeat eighth grade. ``I think this is going to make the difference between success and failure for these students,'' said Leslie Crunelle, district assistant superintendent Assistant Superintendent, or Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), was a rank used by police forces in the British Empire. It was usually the lowest rank that could be held by a European officer, most of whom joined the police at this rank. of educational services. ``I have every confidence that in four years from now, those students will be walking across the stage, graduating in record numbers.'' Construction is under way to prepare property near the school district office for the modular buildings Modular buildings are sectional prefabricated buildings that are manufactured in a plant, and delivered to the customer in one or more complete modular sections. Modular buildings are considerably different from mobile homes. that will serve up to 160 students. The school facility will include eight portable classrooms, one technology lab, an administrative office and a multipurpose mul·ti·pur·pose adj. Designed or used for several purposes: a multipurpose room; multipurpose software. multipurpose Adjective room. Building will be completed before school begins Aug. 30 and is expected to cost about $200,000. About 90 of the 3,039 district students entering the ninth grade this year have already been identified for the program. An additional 110 to 120 eighth-graders attending summer school might be rerouted to Passport depending on their performance, officials said. Students attending the Passport Academy will be taking high school classes including English, world civilization, fine arts, math, physical education, health and an elective elective non-urgent; at an elected time, e.g. of surgery. elective adjective Referring to that which is planned or undertaken by choice and without urgency, as in elective surgery, see there noun Graduate education noun in guidance or technology. No science classes will be offered because there is no science facility. After completing the program, students will progress to the 10th grade in a traditional high school. The program will compliment the recently passed Pupil Promotion and Retention law requiring the governing board Noun 1. governing board - a board that manages the affairs of an institution board - a committee having supervisory powers; "the board has seven members" of each school district to approve a policy of identifying students at risk of being retained at their grade levels. The retention law, passed on Sept. 22, provided the district the authority to classify clas·si·fy tr.v. clas·si·fied, clas·si·fy·ing, clas·si·fies 1. To arrange or organize according to class or category. 2. To designate (a document, for example) as confidential, secret, or top secret. Passport as a mandated retention alternative program, which will include free transportation for students to school. The law has prompted school officials to add two more weeks of summer school to the traditional four-week program and target seventh-grade students who may be at-risk when it's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a for them to make the transition into the ninth grade. About 800 of the 2,539 seventh-graders in the district are attending summer school this year. The district's goal is to identify the at-risk students The term at-risk students is used to describe students who are "at risk" of failing academically, for one or more of any several reasons. The term can be used to describe a wide variety of students, including,
``The (at-risk) students were able to become anonymous, particularly if they had no disciplinary problems,'' Crunelle said. ``They were allowed to fade into the background and not perform.'' Ideally, in three to four years, there will no longer be a need for the program, Crunelle said. |
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