This document offers an initial framework designed to facilitate in-depth discussions across Indiana that will lead to the state's comprehensive dropout prevention plan. This framework was developed by the Indiana High School Dropout Prevention Taskforce, which brought together state policymakers, educators and schools, and business and community members to focus on essential actions related to the guiding principles of readiness, rigor, relevance, relationships, redesign, retooling, and resources. Each of these principles are presented in terms of action items that various stakeholder groups can work on when confronting the dropout problem. States that are attempting to bring together a variety of different constituencies to confront the dropout issue, or other issues of secondary school redesign, will find this document a useful model for their efforts. |
