Union Public School District

The Union Public School District's Dropout Prevention Plan for 2025-2026 aims to address community concerns regarding students at risk of dropping out. The plan includes goals, objectives, and initiatives to help students meet Mississippi College and Career Readiness standards. Key focus areas include identifying and supporting at-risk students, ensuring academic progression, and providing opportunities for future planning, including college and career exploration. The plan also focuses on improving early identification of at-risk students, reducing associated risk factors, and strengthening the home-school-community partnership.

The Union Public School District's English Learner Plan (2023-2024) aims to provide guidance for identifying and instructing English Learners (ELs). The plan emphasizes ensuring all students achieve academic, career, and personal success by cultivating lifelong learners who contribute positively to the community, state, and nation. Key areas of focus include creating safe learning environments, improving academic performance, enriching curriculum and instruction, developing staff excellence, and fostering strong relationships among students, staff, parents, and the community. The plan details procedures for identifying ELs through home language surveys and assessments, providing language instruction educational programs, developing Language Service Plans (LSPs), conducting English language proficiency assessments (LAS Links), and providing accommodations on state assessments. It also outlines exit criteria for ELs, monitoring procedures for students after they exit the program, grading policies that protect against retention due to limited English proficiency, and a multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) to address individual student needs. The plan includes provisions for family and community engagement and program evaluation using various data points to measure effectiveness.

The Union Public School District's 2022-2026 Strategic Plan focuses on preparing students for academic, career, and personal success. Key areas include creating safe and healthy learning environments, improving academic performance, enhancing curriculum and instruction, developing staff excellence, and fostering strong relationships among students, staff, parents, and the community. The plan outlines specific goals and objectives with measurable outcomes across these areas, including facility improvements, enhanced safety protocols, improved student support services, implementation of research-based instructional practices, robust professional development for staff, and strengthened communication strategies.

The Union Public School District's Dropout Prevention Plan for the 2024-2025 school year aims to address the issue of at-risk students. The plan includes goals, objectives, initiatives, and action plans to support students in meeting Mississippi College and Career Readiness standards. Key areas of focus include identifying at-risk students using various indicators (educational and economic factors), providing support to identified students, improving academic progression, and offering opportunities for future planning (college and career exploration). The plan outlines specific actions to improve attendance, behavior, course performance, and academic achievement, while also strengthening home-school-community partnerships. Long-term goals include increasing the graduation rate and improving academic performance metrics.