National Dropout Prevention Center/Network

The National Dropout Prevention Center/Network (NDPC/N) "was begun in 1986 to serve as a clearinghouse on issues related to dropout prevention and to offer strategies designed to increase the graduation rate in America's schools."

Executive Board
Accessed September 2008:

Los Angeles Unified School District
 * Sandy Addis - Director, Pioneer Regional Educational Service Agency
 * Edward Bates - Director, Positive Alternative Students Services (PASS), Lake County Regional Office of Education
 * Stephen R. Canessa - Massachusetts State Representative
 * Robin F. Case - Education Associate, School Climate & Discipline, Delaware Department of Education
 * Elaine L. Craft - Director, SC Center of Excellence & National Resource Center for Engineering Technology Education, Florence-Darlington Technical College
 * Wanda Creel - Assistant Superintendent for Teaching & Learning, Houston County Board of Education
 * Debra Duardo - Director of Dropout Prevention and Recovery,
 * Steven W. Edwards - President, Edwards Educational Services, Inc.
 * Andrea Foggy-Paxton - Program Officer, Education, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
 * Terry B. Grier - Superintendent, San Diego USD
 * Arthur Griffin - Vice President, Urban Advisory Resource, School Education Group, McGraw-Hill Companies
 * Eurmon Hervey, Jr. - Director of Education Programs, State Education Office
 * Robert Mason - President and Founder, EDU, Inc.
 * Mary Jo McLaughlin - NDPN Recording Secretary, Director, Principal, The Academy of Creative Education
 * Brenda Moynihan - Associate Headmaster, Taunton Public Schools
 * John Murray - NDPN Chair, Chairman & CEO, AdvancePath Academics, Inc.
 * Norman Shearin, Jr. - Superintendent, Vance County Schools
 * Jay Smink - Executive Director (ex-officio), National Dropout Prevention Center/Network
 * Bonnie Talakte - Director, Native American Dropout Prevention Initiative, Arizona Department of Education
 * Denine Torr - Sr. Manager, Community Initiatives, Dollar General Corporation
 * Stuart J. Udell - NDPN Vice Chair, CEO, Penn Foster
 * Robert York - Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Advanced Academics, Inc.

Contact

 * Web: http://www.dropoutprevention.org