Along with New Jersey and California, Utah is among a growing number of states that are implementing postsecondary programming for incarcerated youth. Utah’s Higher Education for Incarcerated Youth program even goes beyond what’s offered to incarcerated adults in Utah: Most adults in Utah prisons do not have access to free college-level courses.
At any point during the year, an average of 74 youth are incarcerated across Utah’s five long-term facilities. The average length of stay is about nine months. Thus far, students in those college-level courses have earned about 539 credits in English, criminal justice, biology, political science, philosophy, art, economics and finance, and music,
How many students missed school during the pandemic? Alabama doesn t know msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
How many students missed school during the pandemic? Alabama doesn’t know.
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This Perry County school bus, wired as a mobile internet hotspot, is parked in Newbern, Ala., every weekday to get students connected to the internet to complete their schoolwork.
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More and more students in Alabama are back in classrooms, but questions of how to keep track of students who miss in-person or remote school during the pandemic remain.
Alabama does not have a statewide estimate of absenteeism or how many students have silently left classrooms at some point during the school year during the pandemic. An estimate that 9,800 fewer students enrolled in public school this fall does not capture the scale of a potential dropout, truancy or absentee problem or lack thereof.
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