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Adair Board will consider raising dropout age Adair County School Board will consider accepting incentive grant to raise mandatory school attendance age from 16 to 18. State offers $10,000 incentive for first school districts which do so. Goal meets aim of Work Ready Community, according to Superintendent Alan W. Reed. Click on headline for complete story News from The Adair County School District 1204 Greensburg Street, Columbia, KY Kentucky Board of Education, is backing a resolution urging public school districts to adopt a policy to raise the compulsory school attendance age from 16 to 18. This comes after the recent passage of Senate Bill 97. This would become effective in the 2015-16 school year. The mandatory attendance raise has also been endorsed by the Kentucky School Boards Association. According to the bill, once 55 percent of districts have adopted the policy, the remaining districts will be required sign on within four years. Last week the Kentucky Department of Education announced incentive grants of $10,000 for the first 57 Kentucky school districts that raise mandatory attendance to 18 years of age. The money is earmarked for planning. The Adair County School board will discuss raising the compulsory attendance age and vote on whether to pursue the $10,000 incentive grant at Thursday's board meeting. Central office administrators are discussing the adoption of the new policy and its impact on the school district. "I plan to request that our board seriously consider being one of the first school districts in the Commonwealth to say that we want to see the dropout age raised. We have seen too many young people in Adair County quit school at age 16," said Superintendent Alan Reed. "We know that students are not nearly old enough to understand the impact their decision will have on the rest of their lives. Students will have much better chance to succeed in the future by staying in school until 18, or until they complete their high school coursework." According to the Kentucky Department of Education the $10,000 incentive can be used to develop a plan for implementation that would include integration of career and technical education, engagement of the community and the use of community resources. Reed says that while there may be concerns about the cost of alternative programs for those students, he hopes the school board will consider the long term cost to the community by allowing students to drop out at age 16. "The new law will challenge us to provide the right opportunities for students and fits nicely with the Race to the Top initiative that will kick off next year," said Reed. "This is an opportunity for our school district and Adair County, recently designated a Work Ready Community (in progress) to clearly state that we will not tolerate a policy or a culture where it is okay to dropout" From the Adair County School District This story was posted on 2013-04-15 07:40:51
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