Where in the APR are data found for calculating prior experience points for reentry students in Talent Search? Which of the new objectives covers reentry students?
Response: In Talent Search, reentry students (i.e., those returning to high school after dropping out) were not covered by the objectives for the 2006 competition (though of course these students count towards the total number of participants served). In developing the objectives, TRIO responded to grantees’ desire for greater simplicity; since Talent Search projects serve small numbers of dropouts, and since in the past not all projects set objectives for serving these students, services to dropouts seemed a logical thing to cut from the new objectives. TRIO noted, moreover, a significant disadvantage that some projects experienced in reporting services to dropouts: since most projects that served these students assisted only a small number of dropouts, if only one or two of these students failed to meet the reentry objective, the effect could be large (for example, if the project served five dropouts and one did not reenter, the maximum reentry percentage would drop by 20 percentage
