Kanesville Alternative Learning Center- a Program for Council Bluffs Community School District Students

STUDENT AND/OR PARENT REQUEST

Student must have attended one year plus one semester in a traditional high school to qualify.  All names of requesting students will be given to Amy Hawthorne.

Student requests Kanesville:  Home school  (Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln) will contact parent/guardian to make sure they are on board ,and then a meeting is arranged with student, parent if possible, representative from the home school and Amy Hawthorne.

Parent and student requests Kanesville:  A meeting is arranged with the student, parent if possible, a representative from the home school (Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln) and Amy Hawthorne.

Any student with an IEP will have an IEP meeting arranged after their initial meeting with Amy Hawthorne. The IEP meeting will include home school (Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln)and Kanesville special education representatives.

MANDATORY PLACEMENT

The mandatory placement at Kanesville is a 5th year general education student in the Council Bluffs District who is not being successful at the home high school as deemed by their 5th year contract agreement.

Any general education student in the CB district entering year 6 of high school will attend Kanesville.

INTERVENTION TEAM RECOMMENDATION for CB Students

Recommendations are based on the following criteria:

-Student must have attended one year plus one semester in a traditional high school to qualify.

-Student is having difficulty fitting in at large school, has difficulty regarding large groups and classes, or is just in need of a smaller setting.

-The student has attendance issues at his/her home school that could be solved by attending a school with a smaller setting.

-The student is not successfully earning credits in classes at the home school and would do better in a smaller setting.

-The student is behind credits for the number of years they have been attending high school and is in need of credit recovery.

-Student will remain at home school if it is decided that Kanesville is not in the best interest of the student or if the student and/or parent is not interested in a Kanesville placement.

*Students have the option to return to the home school or remain at Kanesville each semester.

**Any CB student/parent who comes to Kanesville to request placement instead of going through home school representative will be met with by Kanesville staff and a decision will be made about placement. Appropriate home school representatives will be notified.

***To assist in communication between schools Amy Hawthorne will attend all weekly home school intervention team meetings.