Expanding Education Options for
Struggling Students and Disconnected Youth
A Learning Exchange for Local and State Leaders
July 23-25, 2008
Burlington, VT
Learning Exchange Goals:
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Expose participants to effective programs, policies, and collaborations from which they take away concrete, practical lessons about expanding options for secondary education
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Provide participants time to learn about successful strategies to re-engage disconnected youth and discuss with their peers and national experts various approaches to complex and difficult obstacles
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Encourage local and state leaders to plan new strategies for their own communities and states, share lessons learned, and build a network of information, resources, and contacts
Participants
| Thursday, July 24th |
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| 8:30 - 9:00 am | Why Education Options? Framing the Agenda and Contextualizing the Discussion |
| 9:00 - 10:15 am | Steps (and Hurdles) to Creating a Multiple Options System of Education |
| 10:15 - 10:30 am | State/Local Perspectives |
| 10:30 - 11:00 am | Break |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Using Data to Understand Where Your Community is Losing Young People Presentation: Andrew Sum, Professor of Economics, Director, Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University |
| 12:30 - 1:30 pm | Networking Lunch |
| 1:30 - 3:00 pm | State Policies that Facilitate (or Inhibit) Expanding Education Options for Struggling Students and Out-of-School Youth |
| 3:00 - 3:30 pm | Break |
| 3:30 - 5:00 pm | Concurrent Workshops: |
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| Friday, July 25th | |
| 8:30 - 8:45 am | Review of Thursday and Overview of Friday |
| 8:45 - 9:30 am | Youth-serving Systems Working Together to Expand Options |
| 9:30 - 10:30 am | City-State Exchange |
| 10:30 - 10:45 am | Break |
| 10:45 - 11:45 am | Update on Federal Policy and National Efforts - Mala B. Thakur, Executive Director, National Youth Employment Coalition |
| 11:45 - 12:00 pm | Next Steps |
| 12:00 pm | Adjourn |
