Senate Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #486 Alternatives to Out of School Suspension
Requester:	Earl Lennard		Organization:		School District of Hillsborough County
Project Title:	Alternatives to Out of School Suspension		Date Submitted:		01/28/2000 6:17:40 PM
District Member:	Tom Lee		Service Area:		County
Counties Affected:	Hillsborough
Recipient:	School Ditrict of Hillsborough County		Contact:		Connie Milito
	P.O. Box 3408		Contact Phone:		(813) 272-4666
	Tampa 33601
Project Description:
The program would create a partnership between the school district and other community agencies to provide educational programs for students who have been suspended from school.
Services Provided/Benefit to State:
The state will benefit because the program allows students who have been suspended and would otherwise not be receiving educational-type services to continue with classes. Therefore, even though the student is removed from "regular" school, the student can be "in attendance" of school for the length of the suspension. This allows students to keep up with their education and helps break the chronic absenteeism and truancy cycle that exists among some students. By continuing with educational-type classes upon suspension, suspended students are not seemingly "rewarded" for the behavior that got them suspended.
Measurable Outcome Anticipated:
The outcome should be an improvement of student attendance and thereby lessening the absenteeism and truancy rate. Additionally, students will continue to be educated even though they are not allowed to attend regular school classes. The program will allow students to keep up with the rest of the students in their class.
Amount requested from the State for this project this year:				$1,100,000
Total cost of the project:		$1,100,000

Request has been made to fund:			Operations
Is there Local Government or Private match for this request?				Yes
	Cash Amount:	$500,000
Was this project previously funded by the State?				No
Is future-year funding likely to be requested?				No
Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request?				No
Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget?				No
Is there a documented need for this project?				No
Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)?				No