Revision 1,Guide to the 20142015Strive HI Performance Index, Accountability, and Transparent Reporting
rev. & comp. 5132015, rev. 6-18-2015
Material to be deleted is [bracketed and stricken]. New material is underscored.
Paragraph 9.1 is amended to read as follows:
"(9.1)The following students are removed from the denominator of a high school's fouryear adjusted cohort graduation rateand arenot counted by that high school as ontime (diploma) graduates or as high school dropouts:
(A)Students who are deceased;
(B)Students who officially transfer to another Hawaii public school;
(C)Students who officially transfer to a private school or a school in another state;
(D)Students who emigrate to a foreign country;and
(E)Students who officially exit to homeschool via a 4140[; and
(F)Through the formal process for appealing Strive HIresults, students who complete their high school courses in a HIDOE adult education school by earning the same number of credits required for graduation with a regular diploma or higher (e.g., a Board of Education Recognition Diploma) from a HIDOE high school].
When validated by subsequent Official Enrollment Count rosters and SSES, the students described in subparagraphs(A) to (E) are removed from the denominator of the sending (i.e.,losing) school's fouryear adjusted cohort graduation rate. The students who remain in the denominator of the sending school's fouryear adjusted cohort graduation rate fall into one of the following categories: "dropout", "continuing", "graduate", or "certificate". Only those students who are part of a high school's fouryear adjusted cohort and who graduateontime from that high school with a regular diploma or higherare included in the numerator of the high school's fouryear adjusted cohort graduation rate.
The following students will be added to the denominator of a high school's fouryear adjusted cohort graduation rateand will be counted by that high school either as ontime (diploma) graduates or nongraduates (e.g.,high school dropouts):
(AA)Students who transfer into the cohort from other Hawaii public schools after the beginning of the entering cohort's first year in high school;
(BB)Students who transfer into the cohort from private schools, home schooling, or outofstate schools for the first time, after the beginning of the entering cohort's first year in high school; and
(CC)Students who reenter the cohort from private schools, home schooling, or outofstate schools after the beginning of the entering cohort's second year in high school,
regardless of the length of time these students have been enrolled at that school.
Students who earn a Hawaii Adult Community School Diploma by completing the CompetencyBased Community School Diploma Program (CBCSDP) or by passing the General Educational Development (GED) test are deemed dropouts. Students who are excepted from compulsory education by the family court (via a 4140) are deemed dropouts. Students who are incarcerated at the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility (HYCF) are enrolled at OlomanaSchool and are not deemed dropouts.
Special education students (i.e.,students with IEPs):
(AAA)Who are incarcerated at an adult correctional facility or other secure custody facility (not including the HYCF); and
(BBB)Who will not have arrived at the age of eighteen years by January1 of that school year,
are enrolled at the high school neighboring the facility and are not deemed dropouts. Incarcerated special education students who decline special education services and are not enrolled at the neighboring high school are deemed dropouts. All other students (i.e.,students without IEPs) who are incarcerated at an adult correctional facility or other secure custody facility (not including the HYCF), regardless of their age, are deemed dropouts."
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