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	Program Preps Students for Careers, College Fox 5 Atlanta January 26, 2011 - ATLANTA - In May, then-governor Sonny Perdue signed into law the BRIDGE Act. It makes career counseling mandatory for all middle and high school students. The goal is to reduce Georgia's dropout rate and make sure students are career and college-ready. BRIDGE stands for Building Resourceful Individuals to Develop Georgia's Economy. And that's the goal - to point kids in the right direction, to a path that leads not only to prosperity but personal sense of fulfillment. And one Georgia school has taken that mission and run with it. Ricardo Pinedo says he didn't always see a future for himself. "I was shy, never expressed myself in anyway," said student Ricardo Pinedo. View video Download pdf

	Lessons from a Georgia School Late Fall 2010 In many ways, Crabapple Middle School in Roswell, Georgia, is like a lot of other middle schools when it comes to special education students. Working with the individual’s disability, the school’s staff creates a modified learning plan and attempts to teach students as well as possible. Like a lot of other school systems, Crabapple realized that while it was succeeding on one front, it was failing on another. Special ed students were learning and progressing, but when graduation loomed, most were not close to meeting the districts requirements. Read full article.

	Special Ed Transition Planning: Five Keys to Success Winter 2010 The federal government has handed down an ultimatum: meet required performance indicators and graduation rates for special education students or face the consequences. It’s a pain school districts administrators are very familiar with – they feel it every day. When districts are not in compliance, it is top level administrators who are ultimately held accountable. Read full article.

	My Graduation Plan: Video Royal Treatment November 10, 2010 Ken Royal gives a quick video review of Excent’s new self-determination and transition support solution: My Graduation Plan. This short video highlights how schools can address the challenge of helping special education students reach their potential and increase high school graduation rates. Watch the video.

	Excent Launches MyGraduationPlan to Help Special Ed Students Improve Their Chances of Earning a High School Diploma Aug. 2, 2010 Leading online special education solution provider launches program designed to increase student involvement in their IEP’s while enabling districts to meet compliance requirements. Read full article.

	District Administrator New Products: MyGraduationPlan October 2010 Excent’s MyGraduationPlan is a program developed to support students with disabilities who want to earn a high school diploma. The online software uses assessments and activities to help students identify their strengths and assess their disabilities, and to outline specific skill sets required for various employment goals. It also includes tools to enable student participation in individualized education plans. The program is intended to begin when students reach middle school, and adds new content, lessons and activities each year until graduation.