State Street program presents expulsion-academy model, reports rolling enrollment and supports

Principal Lisa Areolas Samos updated the Waterbury Board of Education on Oct. 2 on the State Street program, which serves students referred through expulsion hearings and a separate day program. She told the board the program had 109 students enrolled in the day program and an evening/expulsion enrollment of about 34 students at the time of the presentation.

"Our mission here at the program is through collaboration with families in the community to prepare our diverse learners as a whole to meet the challenges our ever changing global society," Principal Lisa Areolas Samos said, describing services from preschool through 12th grade and a multidisciplinary staff that includes clinical social workers, a school counselor, special education teachers,…