School demographics. It is agreed that in the event that the elementary school with the highest percentage of children from low income families on the latest Public School Eligibility Survey is at least 30 percentage points higher that the elementary school with the second highest percentage, instructional staff and school administrators at the elementary school with the highest percentage will receive a $200 supplement.
School demographics. Instructional staff working at a school where ninety percent of the students qualify for free or reduced lunches will receive a supplement of $50. The free or reduced rate for each school will be determined on date certain during FTE Survey 3 by the Title I Director. Instructional staff who have worked at the school 196 days during the school year will receive the supplement by June 30 of that year.
School demographics. ESE Outreach serves a select population of students who are Severely Emotionally Disturbed and whose educational and emotional needs are unmet in the traditional school setting. Students are sent to ESE Outreach because they are either ungovernable or they are in need of additional services which are not provided in the traditional school setting. ESE Outreach is exclusively designed to provide a rehabilitative approach-the students are provided corrective educational and emotional experience so they can return to other school settings when they are able to generalize accepted, appropriate behaviors. Our student population presently consists of 155 students in grades kindergarten through twelve. Of these 116 are male and 39 are female. Their ethnic composition is 71% Black, 59% Hispanic, and 25% White. The ESE Outreach program is organized as a day treatment model, which applies intensive psychological applications throughout the school day together with family education and counseling. A small student teacher ratio is included to accommodate the essential learning needs of the students. The students’ emotional disabilities have compromised their learning styles and abilities to intellectually develop at a normal pace. In some cases, students also have neurological problems in which mental retardation and medically-related needs have impacted their abilities to learn at a normal rate as their same aged peers. Students who are Severely Emotionally Disturbed students in ESE Outreach have the following problems: use weapons or are preoccupied with weapons; break and enter property; steal; have ideas that others are out to get them; are detached and have unresponsive behavior; show cruelty to animals; are engaged in fire-setting; are preoccupied with explosives; have hallucinations and delusions; are withdrawn and isolated from society; are clinging and cannot be alone; cannot handle themselves in large groups of people; follow persistent rituals; bang their heads for no reason temper tantrums; are physically aggressive; threaten others; have low cognitive functioning; are unable to use good judgment; have severe anxiety and fearfulness; are extremely xxxxx and prone to inappropriate outbursts; and confuse TV, movies, and dreams with reality. Such psychological problems severely impact the student’s ability to learn and access the traditional education setting. ESE Outreach is equipped to handle the pressing problems of the students and deal with them on the s...
