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Stakeholder Feedback“The legislative briefing sponsored by the Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast and Islands provided an opportunity for Rhode Island’s state lawmakers to develop a shared understanding of the circumstances that contribute to the high-school dropout problem. The expert presenters described from a nonpartisan perspective the social and economic impact of high-school dropouts. The discussion allowed state legislators to explore a range of policy options that could help Rhode Island increase the number and proportion of its graduates.” “On behalf of the Rhode Island Association of School Principals, I extend our sincere thanks to you for providing two breakout sessions at the RIASP Summer Conference on August 3, 2009. The feedback on your sessions is extremely positive.... Principals believe you provided detailed data to support the interventions discussed in your sessions. They also now see the Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast and Islands as a good resource for them in their work. Thank you for coming to Rhode Island to provide two different presentations each focused on specific research studies related to the power of RTI (Response to Intervention). Also, we are grateful you were able to have an exhibit table with Regional Educational Laboratory information for our members. We look forward to continuing our work with REL-NEI.” “Thanks for the follow-up. I plan to use your search results as grist for Providence to convene a cross-district policy group to develop solutions to the mobility challenge.” “This study is helping to give us some criteria for identifying data that we need to be collecting that will help us understand these variables a little bit better. Program data information, instructional strategies and combinations, things like that, where we may not be collecting data that would be useful to further the study and this kind of work.” |
