ADI, which is an unbudgeted item for PSS, helps dropouts obtain a high school diploma through specially arranged instruction schedules.
Variety learned that PSS allocates $50,000 each year to pay for the salary of ADI’s instructors.
Board of Education Vice Chairman Herman T. Guerrero said they will ask Northern Marianas College’s Adult Basic Education program if it can possibly “absorb” the ADI students.
The proposed conversation with NMC, he added, is for the possible “program transition.”
There are over a hundred dropouts yearly that may be affected by ADI’s suspension or termination.
Majority of its enrollees are 19-year-olds, and its current semester term, which has 70 registered students, started on Aug. 11 and ends on Nov. 3.
The program serves dropouts who are 16 years old and above. Since its inception, 301 individuals have graduated from ADI, which currently has five instructors conducting evening classes.
NMC’s Adult Basic Education program, for its part, gets $300,000 in federal funds that used to be provided to PSS.
