The Adolescent Girls And Parenting Education (AGAPE) High School of the Saint Paul Public Schools offers a secondary educational program to teens who are pregnant and/or parenting. This small learning community offers courses in Social Studies, Mathematics, English, Business, Family and Consumer Sciences, Career Investigations, Science, Physical Education, and On-the-Job Training.
In addition to these courses, the program provides intervention services to help students address other barriers in their learning. Those services include social, emotional, and physical health services or referrals, English Language Learner support, and Special Education resources.
The program’s goals include academic continuity, successful completion of required coursework, increased parenting skills, development of interpersonal and communication skills, passing the basic standards tests, obtaining and using computer literacy skills, and developing post-secondary educational goals.
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