Clark County Team Academy (CCTA) is a competency-based, alternative charter high school. We operate under an independent study format utilizing a state of the art distance learning delivery system.

CCTA was designed to meet the specific needs of Clark County’s most at-risk teens and young adults. The committee to form this school is composed of professional secondary educators who have years of first-hand experience with at-risk students and various alternative education programs. Our committee also includes social service professionals including a youth group home director, a foster care and vocational education professional, a licensed social worker with 17 years of service with the DCFS working with extremely at-risk youth, an adult care provider, and the attorney who helped create the CCSD Independent Study Program.

Clark County Team Academy’s attendance policy is based on individual study, competency and achievement. It provides a required amount of teacher contact time with provisions for additional contact time as needed.

Each student enrolled in the CCTA will be required to spend a minimum of fifty minutes per week direct contact time with each of his/her subject area teachers. This contact time may be in the form of one-on-one, onsite tutoring, on site class instruction during the proposed schedule. The contact time may also include telephone conversations, two-way e-mail correspondence or interactive on-line correspondence. Teachers will document the specific contact time and duration with an appropriate attendance-recording log. The time spent with the teacher is over and above the required time on the computer or working on independent study to fulfill the requirements of the courses of which the students are enrolled.

The students additionally must access assigned coursework on CCTA's distance education courses. The students must complete the required online assignments each week and either demonstrate competency as determined by the individual teachers using State Standards on completed coursework or the students demonstrate learning as evidenced by the number of minutes logged on line doing coursework or time spent communicating with teachers live, on line, on the telephone or in person.

Failure to complete any weekly subject area (contact time) requirement will be considered an absence. All absences must be made up with in 10 school days of the absence. This must be done through one-on-one, on-site tutoring or on-site class instruction. Failure to make up any absences will be considered as an unexcused absence for the entire day (all classes).

After 5 absences, a student will be required to counsel with the social worker and or counselor to determine why the student is not completing the program. A plan will be prepared for the student to make up the work and get back on track. The student will also be required to attend the site-based program daily according to the schedule.

After missing 10 days, the student will be required to redo each of the courses he/she is working on and the student will have to work on the courses in front of a teacher at the site-based program. The student will be required to attend daily from 8:00 to 4:00.

Providing the student does not respond to any of the programs outlined above, and continues to be absent and does not do the work, he/she will be referred to the truancy court. Before referring the student to truancy court, however, the student will receive counseling about other educational opportunities (i.e., GED, home school, alternative schools, other charter schools or back to the traditional school).

Absence from school will be excused for:
     • Illness
     • Emergency family matters
     • Death in the family
     • Dental and medical appointments, when appointments at other
        times are not possible
     • Extended travel out of town, when arranged in advance by
        calling the office
     • Religious Observances
To be documented as an “excused absence,” the school must receive a telephone call, note from the guardian or e-mail to the office within 24 hours of the absence in order to verify all absences. For pre-arranged absences, the same rules regarding notes, phone calls or e-mail apply. Teachers of classes from which the student will be absent must be contacted for appropriate assignments within a reasonable time prior to the absence.