{"id":12239,"date":"2018-06-16T12:57:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T16:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/?p=12239"},"modified":"2018-06-16T12:57:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T16:57:11","slug":"innovative-program-for-at-risk-youth-wins-award-from-norwalk-school-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/innovative-program-for-at-risk-youth-wins-award-from-norwalk-school-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovative Program for At-Risk Youth Wins Award from Norwalk School Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union, IA <strong>\u00a0<\/strong>June 11, 2018<\/p>\n<p>A chance meeting on a plane 11 years ago led to the fulfillment of a dream for one Iowa educator and the completion of high school for 64 of the most at-risk students in Iowa to date. Iowa Net High Academy, the dream of Dr. Cynthia Knight of Union, IA, provides a path to high school completion for the most at-risk students in Iowa\u2019s school system &#8212; those that have dropped out or are at risk of dropping out.\u00a0 In Iowa over 4,000 students drop out each year.<\/p>\n<p>For that reason, the school board in Norwalk, IA, whose district graduated six students through the program this past year, has chosen to recognize Iowa Net High Academy and Dr. Cynthia Knight with their Board Award.\u00a0 Four students remain in the program and will graduate early next year.<\/p>\n<p>The board presents an award each year to an individual or program that deserves recognition for outstanding work in the school district.<\/p>\n<p>Knight\u2019s program, Iowa Net High Academy has an 84 percent graduation rate.\u00a0 Of the students Norwalk assigned the program this year, 86 percent graduated with a high school diploma from the district. Most of those student would never have graduated high school at all without the program.<\/p>\n<p>Iowa NET High Academy provides an alternative to completing traditional high school that is personalized: based on the student\u2019s strengths and career interests. Each unique student has a learning path that incorporates the Common Core Standards to meet the graduation requirements of the districts served. Working closely with partnering districts,\u00a0 the program creates a positive educational experience that meets the school\u2019s requirements for graduation while preparing the student for the next steps in life.<\/p>\n<p>End<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union, IA \u00a0June 11, 2018 A chance meeting on a plane 11 years ago led to the fulfillment of a dream for one Iowa educator and the completion of high school for 64 of the most at-risk students in Iowa to date. Iowa Net High Academy, the dream of Dr. Cynthia Knight of Union, IA, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12241,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239\/revisions\/12241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}