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Mission

The mission of Greenville Public Schools is to provide all students with a quality education that adheres to rigorous and challenging standards so that they will experience success and become productive members of society.

Alternative Learning Center Middle School Overage Fast Track Program

Purpose

To establish an Overage Fast Track Program to meet the needs of students in middle school who are two or more grades behind their peers.

Problem

Overage students in middle schools reflect promotion problems in elementary and middle schools. (Greenville Public School District policy says a child must pass reading, language arts, math, and science or social studies to be promoted to the next grade level.)

Organization

Establish a fast track program at the Alternative School to address the overage problem in the middle schools. Qualifications for the fast track program will be any seventh or eighth grader two or more grades behind. All seventh graders must pass each area of the Mississippi Curriculum Test during the initial testing or retesting. All eighth graders must have already passed the 7th grade MCT during the spring of their seventh year or must pass the part(s) failed during the January retest. It shall be the responsibility of the middle school principal to identify students eligible for the fast track program. The list of eligible students will be submitted to a committee composed of central office staff, high school principal, middle school principals, alternative school director, and the school district's psychologist. This committee will make the final recommendations for the Fast Track Program.
Major components of the organization must include the following:

	Individual Educational Plans (IEPs) for each student
	Revised schedules, which reflect regular courses in math, English, and computer discovery with intense remediation in Language Arts, mathematics, and reading
	Lab time for use of instructional/assessment software
	Parental consent
	Compact agreement between parent, student, and school.

Curriculum

Basic curriculum will be compressed to accelerate the existing curriculum so that what is taught in one year will be accomplished in one semester. Students will be provided intense instruction in mathematics, Language Arts, and reading (Reporting categories for the Mississippi Curriculum Test - MCT). Students in grade 7 will attend classes inside their cluster taking basic math, English, career discovery courses, and be provided intense remediation in Language Arts, reading, and math during the remainder of the school day. Students in grade 8 will be placed at the Alternative School and provided intense remediation in Language, Reading, and Mathematics. Students will utilize technology through the use of CompassLearning labs and Plato labs to complement the intense instruction. The fast track curriculum will be based on the contents provided through the Mississippi Department of Education Curriculum Frameworks. Each middle school will incorporate the 21st Century Project to accommodate after school remediation.

Promotional Criteria

At the end of each semester, student will be administered a CURRICULUM BASED ASSESSMENT given by the school psychologist. Promotion will be contingent on successfully passing the MCT for grade 7 in addition to scoring mastery on a CURRICULUM BASED ASSESSMENT (District developed test based on the Mississippi Curriculum Frameworks). Upon successfully passing both tests, students will be promoted to the ninth grade.