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6 Working Relationship — Ensuring that communication is open, healthy, and trusting <br />Last year, CHCCS extended an invitation to OCS to attend their college fair, <br />This year, the two school districts are working together to have one countywide <br />college fair, which is scheduled for September 29, <br />The two districts are collaborating with Juvenile Justice to reduce the dropout and <br />suspension rates, <br />7 Early Childhood Programs <br />• Planning is scheduled for 2005 -2006, <br />8. Middle School Athletic Conference <br />Several joint meetings were held to discuss this issue, <br />A proposal was developed to realign the conference into two divisions. <br />The proposal was approved by the boards of Chapel Hill- Carrboro, Orange, and <br />Person. <br />Board members from both Chapel Hill- Carrboro and Orange had expressed <br />concern about travel distances and late evenings for middle school student - athletes who <br />competed with teams from Person County, Person County was equally concerned about <br />the possibility of their being excluded from the conference. A proposal was developed <br />to realign the conference into two divisions. The four CHCCS middle schools will form <br />one division and will play each other twice in most sports. The two Orange middle <br />schools and the two Person middle schools will form a division and will also play each <br />other twice. Each school will play the schools in the other division once, thereby <br />reducing travel time, <br />9 New Paradigm for Funding <br />• See "School Resource Officers" above. <br />10 Alternative School Programming <br />• Scheduled to begin discussion during this school year. <br />