How do Your State’s Policies Hold up?

1. How do Your State’s Policies Hold up? Evaluating State Policies for Alternative Accountability and Student (re)Engagement

2. Policy Elements Supporting Effective Alternative Accountability

3. Policy Elements Supporting Effective Alternative Accountability

5. State Ratings

6. Evidence of Implementation with Fidelity

7. Evidence of Implementation with Fidelity

9. CA as an Example

10. Total Score Interpretation Highly Effective Alternative Accountability Policies and Systems in Place 19—24 Moderately Effective Alternative Accountability Policies and Systems in Place 12-18 Minimally Effective Alternative Accountability Policies and Systems in Place 7-11 Ineffective Alternative Accountability Policies or Systems in Place 1-6

11. Reengagement Policy • Students must be in school in order to benefit from good accountability policy.

12. Evaluating Reengagement Policy What are indicators of state policy for addressing reengagement that result in success for alternative education? What criteria should be in place for successful policy?

13. Draft Reengagement Criteria • Districts maintain responsibility to serve all students under the age of 21 to complete a high school diploma or equivalent secondary credential • Explicit political support for re-engagement from key state leaders • Language calls for multiple robust pathways to high school diploma beyond GED prep and/or credit recovery • Maximizes opportunities for all students to attain high school diploma • State funding support for implementation • Equitable funding options • Sustainability of funding • Inclusion of case management or comparable individualized student support services

14. Draft Reengagement Criteria • Multiple accountability measures • E.G. Academic growth measures , rather than standardized test result, as gauge of progress for alternative students • Inclusion of more than a four year graduation rate • Inclusion of measures of academic growth and holistic measures of alternative students’ progress to graduation (attendance, social-emotional, college readiness) • Feasibility of implementation (if new) • In practice • In financial costs • Effectiveness of policy or implementation (if existing) • Is there any assessment or evaluation of policy in effect • Options for assessing effectiveness

15. Reengagement Policy:Strategies and Advocacy Which states are exemplars, leading efforts to encourage reengagement? Which states have recently passed legislation which creates policy or program openings? Which states are good candidates for advocacy?

16. Contact Us Jody Ernst, Ph.D. Vice President, Research and Policy Analytics jernst@momentum-sr.org Nick Mathern Assoc. VP, Policy & Partnership Developmentnmathern@gatewaytocollege.org