Graduation Rates correlated with ACEs

Thank you for the kind words Brenda, it is a team effort and my staff do amazing work each day. As I come closer to the end of my career, I wished I would have know about ACE's during those early years. There is so much power in caring adult relationships, the one relationship that can change the pathway of one's life. We are all a team on acestoohigh and together we will make a difference and advocate that all children deserve to be loved and bonded with their mommies. Blessings, Jim

Hi Trevor,

 

I have the societal cost of dropouts if that helps you:

"The report puts the collective cost to the nation over the working life of each high school dropout at $292,000."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/education/09dropout.html?_r=1&

 

There are more figures on our page:

Trauma's Monetary Costs to Society

http://acesconnection.com/profiles/blogs/monetary-costs-to-society

 

ACEsConnection member Jim Sporleder has written some blog posts on education policy & ACEs. Here's one post of his that has some more figures:

State math test for high school seniors plays “high stakes” with kids’ lives, taxpayers

http://acesconnection.com/profiles/blogs/state-math-test-for-high-school-seniors-plays-high-stakes-with

 

Hopefully someone else will be able to contribute.

Jim, I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you (publicly, because I know I'm not the only one who appreciates your work) for everything you are doing for the kids in your school.  Amazing work, you have amazing staff, and your students are an amazing example of what's right in our broken society.  I wish educators would truly FOCUS on your messages, your wisdom, your insight!

I, like Chris have all the data on what a graduate contributes to the tax revenue and what a dropout costs the taxpayers.  We have are a Trauma Informed alternative high school and I can send you what we have collected, but it isn't scientific data, 'just our own tracking of our students.

We did a random study on 20 students that started at Lincoln in 2010 and all of them graduated 2013.  I would be happy to send you what we have seen in our students since we use the ACE Study as our framework.  Our discipline data is incredible, and our state assessment scores were 10 and 20% gains. We survey our kids every year and our students had the highest performing year 2012-2013 and yet they averaged 5.5 ACE's.  It felt like the crisis never stopped, but when we look at our data, they knocked a grand-slam last year. My email is jrsporleder@yahoo.com if you want me to send our data.  Blessings, Jim