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Extracted from Consolidated Report
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Findings 3 findings
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1 In response to information-sharing challenges, many youth-serving agencies have established Multi-Disciplinary Teams that conference on specific cases. Much like IEPs, these MDTs coordinate services provided by professionals from multiple youth- serving agencies in an attempt to ensure student success. Most MDTs require parental consent before the service providers may discuss a particular child’s case, which may result in the failure to integrate services for a significant number of at-risk youth.
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1 LAUSD created the Dropout Prevention and Recovery Unit with programs such as the Diploma Project and Comprehensive Student Support to specifically target students at risk of dropping out of school, and to provide intervention services at all education levels. However, there are a small number of Diploma Project Advisors and CSS Outreach Coordinators given the size of the at-risk population. The current FY 2009-10 budget proposal recommends that the non-grant programs be eliminated.
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1 Dropout Prevention and Recovery’s Diploma Project currently has only two measures that provide evidence that the program is achieving its goals: an increase in graduation rate and reduction in potential dropout list. While these two methods do show positive results, the graduation rate increase is not clearly or solely linked to the work of the Diploma Project, and the reduction in the potential dropout rate does not encompass all of the efforts or work of the DPAs.
Recommendations 3
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R1Page 2311 – The Superintendent of LAUSD The Superintendent of LAUSD should convene a committee of program, technology, and legal representatives of relevant departments* to identify existing underutilized opportunities for information sharing as well as areas in which legislative proposals may be warranted.
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R2Page 2211 – The Board of Education of the LAUSD The Board of Education of the LAUSD should at least continue funding for the non-grant funded portions of the Dropout Prevention Program, given the program’s significance providing intensive dropout prevention services to the most at-risk students.
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R3Page 2291 – The Superintendent of the LAUSD The Superintendent of the LAUSD should implement, by June 2010, a comprehensive set of outcome-based objectives and performance measures that clearly link available data with program goals for the Diploma Project. 2008-2009 Los Angeles County Civil Grand Jury Report 215