Ombudsman: An Alternate Route

An alternative education provider that recently contracted with the Walker County school system is expanding its program.

Ombudsman Educational Services, a private company that delivers individual…

PUBLISHED: July 16, 2008

DEARBORN HEIGHTS – After one full school year in operation, the Westwood Community School District Ombudsman program for at-risk students announced recently that 39 student…

LAFAYETTE – Ombudsman Educational Services and the Walker County School System today announced they will expand their alternative education program for middle and high school students.
Ombudsman Ed…

Posted: July 9, 2008 03:44 PM

WALKER COUNTY, Ga. –

Ombudsman Educational Services and the Walker County Georgia School System announced they will expand their alternative education program for…

By Carrie Frillman – cfrillman@daily-chronicle.com

DeKALB – The DeKalb School Board approved 6-0 Tuesday a contract that will allow 45 students struggling with their studies to participate next sch…

The Tennessean, Nashville, TN

BY STEVE GLOVER – JUNE 10, 2008

Every single school day, thousands and thousands of Nashville teenagers get a rich educational experience in our Metro public school…

DALLAS, Ga. (June 2, 2008) – Ombudsman Educational Services today announced it is partnering with the Paulding County School District to help the district’s middle and high school students graduate.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 2 /PRNewswire/—Educational Services of America (ESA) today announced the board of Metro Nashville Public Schools voted unanimously to authorize the school administration to c…

By Amy Griffith, agriffith@nashvillecitypaper
Updated: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:14 am

A program that outsources high-risk public school students to a private, for-profit local company has, as ex…

By JAIME SARRIO
Staff Writer

Metro schools plans to hire a private, for-profit company to educate about 500 of the district’s struggling students.

School board members Tuesday unanimously vot…

Monday, May 26, 2008
By:
Beverly Carroll (Contact)

Walker County School officials were looking for a way to trim the budget when they found a way to save money and save students who were at ris…

The Walker school system’s Alternative Education Center is slated to close at the end of this school year.
According to Chris Chambers, coordinator of student services for the system, the school wil…

For Immediate Release

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (May 19, 2008) -Educational Services of America (ESA) today announced it has signed contracts with 14 new school districts since January, bringing to more tha…

BY MARK CLAYPOOL • MAY 11, 2008

Tennessee Voices

Every nine seconds, a student drops out of school.
Some students quit school because they have to work to help support their families. Some …

by Dave Nagel

A technology-assisted program for helping student attain high school diplomas is expanding in Georgia. Educational Services of America said that nine new districts are signing up for …

Web posted on Thursday, April 17, 2008

In what McDuffie County Superintendent of Schools Mark Petersen called a “significant paradigm shift of how we educate at-risk students,” members of the syste…

For Immediate Release

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (April, 2008) -Educational Services of America (ESA) today announced it is expanding its program to help students graduate from high school to nine more sch…

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Mark Claypool, president of Nashville-based ESA, has a background in social work …

Please click on the link below to hear an interview about our Ombudsman, Wicomico, MD Center. The interview is with Allison O’Neill, Vice President of Operations and two Wicomico students.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (Jan. 9, 2008) – Two charter schools will open in Tucson this August to give middle and high school students who have dropped out or are at risk of dropping out an alternate route to ear…

Click here for a video of an interview with an Ombudsman Maryland student

Then click on ‘Program Gives At-Risk Students a Second Cha…

PUBLISHED: November 25, 2007
DEARBORN HEIGHTS

Ombudsman Educational Services will increase its capacity to serve more at-risk students when it moves into its new location at 23810 Michigan Ave. …

Michigan Education Report – Posted: Nov. 14, 2007

The Westwood Community School District has contracted with Ombudsman, a private company based in Illinois, to provide an alternative education …

Ombudsman Educational Services Reports 85 Percent National Success RateEducating At-Risk Students

PHOENIX (November 8, 2007) – Ombudsman Arizona Charter Schools announced today that all six sites…

Ombudsman Educational Services, a program that offers a second chance for students who have been expelled, have serious attendance issues or would benefit from an alternative learning environment, ann…

Sept. 27, 2007
By Michelle Giguere
Granite State News

WOLFEBORO — Each year, thousands of students around the country seek something a little different than a traditional high school education.…

BY SHARLONDA L. WATERHOUSE Post-Tribune staff writer

Roberto, 18, needed a high school that would accommodate his 3 to 11 p.m. shift at Gary’s U.S. Steel mill.
Francisco, 16, wanted to make up s…

Ombudsman Educational Services Reports 85 Percent Success Rate Nationally Educating At-Risk Student Population

(East Chicago, Ind.) Sept. 6, 2007 – The School City of East Chicago has approved a co…