WHAT ARE PERFORMANCE LEARNING CENTERS? ®

PLCs are small, non-traditional high schools geared toward students who are not succeeding in the traditional school setting. They create a business-like environment and emphasize personal support and an intense academic program anchored by an online instructional system and project-based learning. PLCs were funded through the help of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, private foundations and businesses.

Performance Learning Centers work to focus students not just on graduation, but life and education beyond high school. Preparation for college and a career are the standards of success for PLCs. PLC students are encouraged to start actively planning their future and take the steps necessary to make their plans a reality.

With the start of the 2006-07 school year, there are 29 operational PLCs in Georgia and one in North Carolina. Developmental plans have begun to expand the PLCs to open in the 2007-08 school year in additional states that have CIS programs (Virginia, Washington and Pennsylvania). In addition, several other states are working toward establishing PLCs in the near future. For this reason, CIS National and CIS of Georgia are issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) to assist with the selection of standards-based elearning courses and services that may be utilized by PLC sites across the United States.

To contact a PLC team member, e-mail spalmer@cisgeorgia.org.