Dear Julie and Barbara

Going back to Barbara's earlier question about how programs count
students...students enrolled for college credit classes who may also be
enrolled in ABE.  Barbara mentioned that...

these students test below the NRS level 6 and therefore are eligible for
ABE and she would like to know if other ABE programs do this and, more
importantly, whether they count these students in their ABE reports as
ABE students (only for the time that ABE serves the student and also
complying with state assessment policies). 

Julie, in the publication you recently co-authored ("Working Together: 
Aligning State Systems and Policies for Individual and Regional
Prosperity") you mention dual enrollment and other "blended models." 
Would these be similar to what Barbara is doing and did you find that
other programs shared her concern?  How did they deal with this issue?

To read "Working Together" go to the CLASP website at
http://www.clasp.org/publications/wsc_working_together.pdf

Cynthia



Cynthia Zafft, Director
National College Transition Network (NCTN)
World Education, Inc.
44 Farnsworth Street
Boston, MA 02210
(617) 482-9485
www.collegetransition.org