New Hampshire Code of Administrative Rules
Ed - Board of Education
Chapter Ed 900 - DROPOUT PREVENTION AND DROPOUT RECOVERY PROGRAM
Part Ed 903 - PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICES
Section Ed 903.02 - Program Services

(a) Provide and coordinate services designed to assist pupils in the successful completion of high school;

(b) Encourage individual, corporate, and state support and involvement to promote employment opportunities for New Hampshire's students;

(c) Render assistance in ensuring student placement in quality jobs with ample career opportunities;

(d) Encourage students to pursue postsecondary education by assisting in securing appropriate part-time work to accompany that education;

(e) Encourage lifelong learning by introducing students to the importance of skills training and demonstrating how learning is relevant to skills necessary in the workplace;

(f) Provide tutoring, study skills training, and instruction leading to successful completion of secondary school, including dropout prevention strategies through a school-site mentor;

(g) Provide alterative secondary school services with high academic standards;

(h) Deliver pre-employment and work maturity skill training, paid and unpaid work, work-based learning experiences that teach all aspects of industry-specific and general workplace competencies, including internships, job shadowing, and school sponsored workplace mentoring;

(i) Provide opportunities which may include community service and peer-centered activities encouraging responsibility and other positive social behaviors during non-school hours, including linking youth and adult mentoring, as appropriate;

(j) Provide support services and transitional links that assist students in the elimination of barriers; and

(k) Establish an 85 percent graduation rate and a 90 percent return to school rate for pupils most likely to drop out as performance goals for program participants.