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Jackson Public School District, Mississippi
 On
the basis of internal needs assessments conducted during the previous
school year, EMSTAC's first year of partnership, Jackson identified
reading supports as a primary area for technical assistance support.
With the improvement of student outcomes in reading as a primary
goal, Jackson began in spring 1999 (prior to EMSTAC involvement)
to implement reading programs in selected resource rooms across
the district. These reading programs were funded through a statewide
general education grant to support students with dyslexia. The initial
program implemented in Jackson was the Scottish Rite reading program.
Though this program was the focus of last year's evaluation report,
the district appears to have moved away from scaling up the Scottish
Rite program. The current program under districtwide implementation
is the Modern Red Schoolhouse, although the executive director indicates
that this is a general education initiative. The program was not
identified through the use of EMSTAC resources or by the direct
initiative of the office of special education. Schools have selected
Modern Red Schoolhouse contingent on the support of at least 80%
of all school staff. The goal of the program is to improve reading
scores for both special education and general education students.
Beyond
implementing the Modern Red Schoolhouse program, the district's
current focus is on restructuring its schools according to feeder
patterns. "Executive principals" have been assigned to
each set of school feeder patterns to provide technical support
and coaching to each school principal within the feeder-pattern
cluster. The executive director of exceptional education services
suggested during the interview that resources from EMSTAC could
be routed through the work of the executive principals. The district
also has a National Science Foundation grant for providing professional
development in mathematics and science and a 21st Century Schools
grant from the federal Goals 2000 program. Neither of these funding
sources is specific to special education.
As
part of the district's identification of reading as a primary need,
some district schools have implemented the Lindamood-Bell program
in phonemic training. This program is funded through the district's
state-level dyslexia grant and is not considered by the executive
director to be a special education initiative.
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