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Should the Vikings be able to use the University of Minnesota’s TCF Bank Stadium?
Rochester Schools want their dropouts back
Mon, Sep 10th, 2012
Posted in Rochester Education
Posted in Rochester Education
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Rochester Public Schools (RPS) and the United Way (UW) of Olmsted County have partnered together to get high school dropouts back to school. At the Rochester School Board meeting Tuesday, September 4, Karen Mathison of the United Way and superintendant Michael Muñoz announced their We Want You Back program. They presented the following series of ominous statistics:
Students who drop out of high school are three times more likely than college graduates to be unemployed. Minnesota dropouts earn $9,200 less annually than high school graduates, and over one million dollars less over a lifetime than a college graduates. Last year, Rochester Public Schools lost 200 high school students. Though enrollment for the district is up this year, with 815 new students, the magnitude of students lost to drop out is unacceptable.
To address this problem, RPS and UW will send trained community members across the city on Saturday October 6 to the homes of high school students who have not yet returned to school for the new school year. Interested students will be transported to a kick-off community breakfast welcome program where they can sit down with academic counselors and staff to get re-enrolled and oriented. Once students re-enter through this program, they will be closely followed by volunteers who hope to engage the family in sustaining the student’s commitment to high school graduation.
Muñoz had two messages he hoped this effort would send to students: “You are important to us, and your education is important to us. Not only to the district, but to the community,” and “You do matter, we all want you to be successful.”
“Student success really is community success. Our mission is to connect people and resources to improve lives,” said Karen Mathison. “This touches the workforce 20/20 goals we have as a community. We’ll have jobs, and we need people to fill those jobs. This is an issue that affects all of us.”
120 community volunteers are needed to join 50 school district staff to reach out on October 6 from 9am-12p. Volunteers will also need to attend a one-hour training in the week prior to the event.
Volunteers capable in a variety of capacities are needed 1) to call students the week prior to let them know that volunteers will be making home visits, 2) to set up the welcome breakfast at the Edison building, and 3) to drive to student homes and convey a sincere message on behalf of the community that they are welcome and wanted back in school. Volunteers with second language skills are especially needed.
Sign up to help and join the workforce of volunteers at: http://www.uwolmsted.org/comeback
Students who drop out of high school are three times more likely than college graduates to be unemployed. Minnesota dropouts earn $9,200 less annually than high school graduates, and over one million dollars less over a lifetime than a college graduates. Last year, Rochester Public Schools lost 200 high school students. Though enrollment for the district is up this year, with 815 new students, the magnitude of students lost to drop out is unacceptable.
To address this problem, RPS and UW will send trained community members across the city on Saturday October 6 to the homes of high school students who have not yet returned to school for the new school year. Interested students will be transported to a kick-off community breakfast welcome program where they can sit down with academic counselors and staff to get re-enrolled and oriented. Once students re-enter through this program, they will be closely followed by volunteers who hope to engage the family in sustaining the student’s commitment to high school graduation.
Muñoz had two messages he hoped this effort would send to students: “You are important to us, and your education is important to us. Not only to the district, but to the community,” and “You do matter, we all want you to be successful.”
“Student success really is community success. Our mission is to connect people and resources to improve lives,” said Karen Mathison. “This touches the workforce 20/20 goals we have as a community. We’ll have jobs, and we need people to fill those jobs. This is an issue that affects all of us.”
120 community volunteers are needed to join 50 school district staff to reach out on October 6 from 9am-12p. Volunteers will also need to attend a one-hour training in the week prior to the event.
Volunteers capable in a variety of capacities are needed 1) to call students the week prior to let them know that volunteers will be making home visits, 2) to set up the welcome breakfast at the Edison building, and 3) to drive to student homes and convey a sincere message on behalf of the community that they are welcome and wanted back in school. Volunteers with second language skills are especially needed.
Sign up to help and join the workforce of volunteers at: http://www.uwolmsted.org/comeback
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7:35:16, Oct 10th 2012
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