President Obama’s 2009 American was established to create a community-college challenge fund to allow opportunities for people to complete two-year or certificate programs to provide them with specific credentials for middle-skill jobs.

GRADUATION INITIATIVE

Explanation: The American Graduation Initiative was President Obama's initiative for Community Colleges. It was established to create a community-college challenge fund to allow opportunities for people to complete two-year or certificate programs to provide them with specific credentials for middle-skill jobs.  He proposed investing roughly $12 billion in community colleges.

The Espanola Valley traditionally has been and continues to be a

place which is economically depressed and suffers from a low high school graduation rate.

Because this situation continues to perpetuate, our school seeks to serve those students in

our community who are at risk of not graduating from high school. In fact, investigation into

the problem of a high dropout rate has revealed that the actual number of students who do

not graduate is actually higher, since a sizeable number of students leave school in the 8th

and 9th grades and never return, and those who drop out at that grade level fall through the

cracks. The talk on the street is that these are students who have fallen so far behind, not

only in credit hours earned, but also in their own self-perception future academic failure, that

they quit school before even entering high school, where dropout rates are first tabulated.

Our mission, which began to take shape in our earlier operation of Carinos Charter School, is

to provide a school that focuses on the needs of at-risk children. This category also can

include children of families that the government now recognizes as “homeless” and whose

backgrounds are quite varied, but with the result that there such uncertainty and lack of

stability at home that it becomes extremely difficult for these students, despite their mental

acumen, to do passing grade level work at school. This category also includes those

students who do not perform as well as their classmates due to a variety of causes such as

struggling with the effects of Autism, ADHD, dyslexia, processing deficits, psychological and

neurological issues, and similar conditions.

Our mission is fully stated and accomplished when we provide a curriculum and modality of

instruction that allows for a flexible lesson plan system, a curriculum that more effectively

addresses the issues stated above, and two innovative programs.

First, we will employ and integrate a modified portion of the STEM curriculum in the part of

our curriculum that includes animals and agriculture. The STEM modality will not only be

useful in terms of practical skills that relate to the care and feeding of animals, but will also be

used in a business model where the students will be part of the Espanola Farmer’s Market in

order to sell their produce and value added products.

It must be added and stressed that the inclusion of animals and agriculture into the everyday

curriculum will give the students a nurturing and dynamic addition to their school day. The

human heart responds favorably and lovingly to animals as they are born and grow. The

sense of responsibility for taking care of captive animals encourages the children to attend

school and to participate with enthusiasm. Such an endeavor also builds a sense of

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