Characteristics IDENTIFIERS *Alleghany County School District NC

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of successful participation in the Options Alternative Educational Program (Options) of the Alleghany County Public Schools (North Carolina) on future success and productivity. Successful participation of a group was determined by the group's meeting a 657. standard in each of the following predictors while in the program: (1) reduced truancy; (2) decreased court involvement; (3) improved academic achievement; and (4) improved school discipline. Future success and productivity of the group was determined by meeting a 657. standard in the following correlational criteria, as of March 1995: absences not to exceed three more than the previous year, no court involvement, receiving credit in at least five of eight courses, and no school suspensions or expulsions. It was concluded that successful participation in Options was effective in predicting future success and productivity. Four appendixes present the success and productivity data for each group. (Contains 15 tables and 24 references.) (Author/SLD) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document