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With the Michigan Merit Curriculum, we recognize the need for high academic achievement. However, we continue to advocate for flexibility in the access and delivery for students who need alternative ways to achieve and succeed. Alternative Education programs provide this opportunity for thousands of students across the state, ensuring that the rigor of our curriculum is achieved with student engagement, determination, and preparation for their next steps in learning and career pathways.
Priorities:
- Maintain, expand and support Alternative Education programs and options for students throughout the state.
- Allow additional standard assessment tools to demonstrate academic growth for reporting Adequate Yearly Progress.
- Look at longitudinal data to account for student progress, not only as a measure for the last school
of enrollment.
- Meet Michigan High School Requirements by networking with local districts, local resources and state-approved programs, utilizing alternative education pathways.
- Review the current pupil accounting process to have the FTE follow the student in a prorated attendance formula. Flexibility is needed for count day in that oftentimes students are referred to our programs after count day.
Michigan’s alternative education programs are capable, effective and efficient. We provide a needed service to the most difficult to serve to ensure that they are not left behind.
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