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LL- <br /> �MOKO <br /> ac. <br /> CIT `R' SCHOOLS <br /> TO: Dr. Pamela Baldwin, Superintendent <br /> FROM: Jessica O'Donovan, Assistant Superintendent, Instructional Services <br /> Quincy Williams, Exec Director, Elementary Schools & Special Programs <br /> Kathi Breweur, Director, Career and Technical Education <br /> RE: Durham Technical Community College Partnership Update <br /> Date: January 30, 2019 <br /> Alignment to Strategic Plan Goals: <br /> Student Success <br /> • Goal 5: Facilitate a program that ensures all students have equitable opportunities by <br /> mitigating barriers to rigorous instruction and post-secondary opportunities. <br /> Organizational Effectiveness <br /> • Goal 2: Review, evaluate and adjust programs,processes and resources to promote student <br /> success. <br /> High school students across the state have the opportunity to take community college courses tuition <br /> free via the Career and College Promise (CCP). Unfortunately, only a few students at each of our <br /> four high schools take advantage of these educational opportunities. A few examples of CCP <br /> courses our students are currently taking with Durham Tech include: online Fire Protection, online <br /> Security Concepts, online Anatomy and Physiology I & II, and a few college transfer courses. <br /> Although Alamance Community College (ACC) is not our service area provider, ACC also provides <br /> Career and College Promise opportunities for our students (when those courses are not <br /> offered/available at Durham Tech). Alamance provides a photography/videography teacher for <br /> those ACC classes on the campus at East. Approximately 60 - 75 students attend these classes each <br /> semester. There are two main factors why more of our juniors and seniors are not participating in <br /> these tuition free courses: <br /> • Transportation,which is a barrier for many of our students <br /> • Awareness of these educational opportunities <br /> Efforts are being made to address these factors and strengthen our partnership with Durham <br /> Technical Community College (DTCC). Over the last month, the district has met with a team from <br /> DTCC to plan a number of additional opportunities, as outlined below. <br /> Instead of our students traveling to either the Lawson Street or Orange County campus of <br /> Durham Tech, we are in the process of establishing an MOU to bring Durham Technical Community <br />