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  1. Macon center to become youth 'one-stop shop'

    08 March 2010

    In a large room with chipped tables and stuttering fluorescent lights, high school students gathered Thursday at The Booker T. Washington Center of Excellence and discussed what distracts them from their goals. Participants, who are part of a Workforce Development career training program, received pointers from Mercer University students on skills such as time management and dressing for an interview. Such programs for young people haven’t been seen at the Booker T. Washington Center in more than a year, but its new leaders say there will be plenty more before the year is out.

  2. Program offers alternative for high school dropouts

    24 February 2010

    Dropouts from Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Northeast high schools are getting second chances for high school diplomas at a new school in Bustleton. The Ombudsman Northeast Accelerate Program, which moved into a site at 1810 Grant Ave. last month, is helping these students, most between the ages of 16 and 21, to earn high-school credits toward graduation from the School District of Philadelphia.

  3. Clarke County BOE Unanimously Approves Superintendent's Proposal

    12 February 2010

    Board members voted unanimously Thursday night to hire Ombudsman Educational Services for $1.2 million after more than an hour of discussions with the staff of the county's SOAR Academy. The board approved a plan to hire the company to teach 175 Clarke County middle school and high school students who commit serious rule violations or who need to catch up on credits.

  4. Limestone County School System Helping Kids Succeed with Ombudsman Program

    04 February 2010

    Limestone County Schools in Athens, Ala., is attracting the attention of state leaders with a program to help students stay in school.

  5. Ombudsman saving Paulding money and students

    03 February 2010

    The Paulding County School District is realizing significant cost savings and improving the alternative education program for at-risk students, say school officials. Action taken by the Paulding Board of Education in April 2008 has proven to be an excellent approach to alternative education with cost savings of $750,000 in 2008-2009 and about $770,000 in the current year. In addition to the savings for those two years, the district saved about $290,000 on summer school this year.

  6. Making Inroads on Dropouts

    02 February 2010

    School officials credit aggressive anti-truancy efforts and new educational programs for making deep inroads into the school's dropout rate.

  7. January 2010 Ombudsman Newsletter

    28 January 2010

    • Ombudsman Rebound Ceremony Celebrates Graduates • District Saves $1.8 Million • Find us on Facebook and YouTube!

  8. Omudsman Rebound Students Earn High School Diplomas

    28 January 2010

  9. Keeping Students in School, By Pulling Them From the Classroom

    19 January 2010

    An alternative program adopted by some school districts keeps students in class by taking them out of the school building.

  10. Students rebound to graduate in January

    11 January 2010

    January is not typically a month that conjures images of high school graduations. But the graduation that happened in Aurora on Friday night was anything but typical. Each of the 16 students who walked the line had either dropped out or they had been expelled from their previous schools.

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