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stories and events to:
NC Department
of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
1801 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1801
News and Events Staff
William Lassiter,
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Joanne McDaniel,
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Department Ready to SOAR!
Receives Dropout Prevention Grant
The North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Schools are going to SOAR to new heights by implementing strategies that are designed to help students who have previously failed to remain in school.
On January 22, 2008, the General Assembly leadership announced that the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention school system was one of sixty recipients of state grants designed to generate efforts to reduce the number of dropouts in North Carolina. The grants range in size from $25,000 to $150,000 and were awarded to school systems, schools, agencies, and nonprofits. More than 300 groups applied for the grants. The Department’s grant will enable its school system to create a dropout prevention and acceleration program for eighth and ninth grade students who have failed for one to two years.
The program will be housed at the Lenoir Youth Development Center School in Kinston, N.C. The S.O.A.R. (Student Options for Academic Readiness) Academy will serve as a model for other Department schools as it will be designed to engage students who are most at-risk of dropping out of school. The program will also seek to re-engage the parents/guardians in the education of their children by providing them with tools to become part of the process.
Mia Murphy of Education Services, author of the successful grant, will spearhead the implementation of the S.O.A.R academy. Mrs. Murphy described this achievement as “a wonderful opportunity for all students who want to earn credit toward a high school diploma.”
The recipients were selected by the recently formed Committee on Dropout Prevention. The co-chairs of the committee are Dr. David B. Strahan, a professor in Elementary and Middle Grades Education at Western Carolina University, and Bill Farmer, a vice president of Time Warner Cable in Charlotte. The 15 members of the committee were appointed by Gov. Mike Easley, Speaker Joe Hackney of the North Carolina House of Representatives ,and Sen. Marc Basnight, president pro tem of the North Carolina Senate.
The new Joint Legislative Commission on Dropout Prevention and High School Graduation will evaluate the programs that receive grants and decide whether expanding or replicating them will improve graduation rates in the state.
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