What are the measured outcomes of EcO15 and what progress have we made?
# of increased job placements – during the last year the number of manufacturing jobs has decreased by 2%. Southeast Indiana increased by 0.2% during the same time period. With the implementation of Indiana Career Connects (Job matching system) in July, we will be able to track in more detail. Per cent decrease in high school dropout rate – the graduation rate of the cohort class of 2005-6 was 79.0% for Southeast Indiana. In 2006-7 the rate was 80.2%. While this comparison was before the official EcO15 announcement in December 2007, we believe that simply talking about the problem has increased awareness and may have been a factor in seeing some improvement. This fall we will begin to see more Project Lead the Way and MSSC programs implemented. Our belief is that this will capture the interest of some students who may have potentially dropped out. We have broken the graduate rate down by county so that each county’s EcO15 team can have baseline data for improvement. # of increased stud
