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PPS’s Multiple Pathways receives $3.9 million grant from federal government
1/19/2018Portland Public Schools’ Multiple Pathways to Graduation has been awarded a $3.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The five-year grant gives an infusion of resources to Multiple Pathways, which helps high-needs students graduate and move into college and careers.
“We are thrilled to have been awarded $3.9 million, our full proposal amount,” said Korinna Wolfe, Senior Director of Multiple Pathways to Graduation. “This will give us the ability to better meet the individual needs of students in alternative education settings.”
The grant was one of 16 awarded by the DOE under its Early Phase Education Innovation and Research program. It came after PPS submitted a proposal for what it called the PREP project, an acronym for Personalized, Relevant, Engaged for Postsecondary.
PREP’s goal is to help improve graduation rates for high-needs students and get them into college programs. The students it will serve include historically-underserved youth who might experience poverty and homelessness, as well those involved in the foster care and juvenile justice systems.
The grant will allow Multiple Pathways to hire social workers and alcohol and drug specialists as well as develop a project-based learning model. Under that model, students learn multiple subjects while working on a single question, problem or challenge for an extended time. PREP will also focus on providing social-emotional supports, tailored for individual students who have previously been enrolled in multiple high schools.
“By focusing on social-emotional well-being, personalization and completion of Portland Community College dual-credit career pathways certificates, we have been able to increase the number of students graduating annually from Alliance from 49 to 79 students over the last three years, a 37 percent increase,” Wolfe said. “We are thrilled the PREP grant will allow us to implement these successful strategies more broadly throughout our PPS alternative schools."
PREP is projected to serve 2,250 PPS students while creating a model that could be duplicated elsewhere and ultimately serve as many as 20,000 students.
The plans for PREP identify Metropolitan Learning Center, and the Alliance Alternative High Schools at Meek and Benson campuses, as pilot sites for Years 2 and 3. In addition to Portland Community College, PPS will partner with Education Northwest, Oregon’s Vocational Rehabilitation Division and Portland State in the program.
-Mike Tokito
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