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Approval by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between the District and Citizen Schools, Boston, MA, for the latter to provide 27,250 hours of services to Elmhurst Community Preparatory School, as follows:
1) Citizen Schools will extend the school day at ECP by a minimum of 12 hours per week. The program structure will include substantial homework support, time in online learning lab, and college and career aligned apprenticeships. These apprenticeships will be taught by community members and volunteers from large corporate partners such as Cisco, Google, and Stanford Medical School.
2) Citizen Schools staff will partner with ECP core staff in the intervention program. With credentialed teachers, they will provide small group instruction, monitor online/ blended learning, and seek to improve the effectiveness of the intervention program.
3) Citizen Schools staff will work in partnership with ECP core staff in providing summer programming. Citizens Schools staff will work with ECP teachers to create small learning groups and monitor online/ blended learning. They will also participate in the
Summer Bridge Program, supporting rising 6th graders in their transition to middle school,
for the period August 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013, in an amount not to exceed $545,000.00.
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