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APTS is a year-round special education day school offering a highly structured classroom setting for students whose disabilities include Autism and other Developmental Disabilities, not limited to Emotional and or Learning Disabilities.   The program specializes in an intensive delivery of services to students who engage in self-injurious behaviors (SIBs) as well as aggressive behaviors.
 
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APTS Inclement Weather Instruction Policy

For inclement weather days, APTS campus buildings will follow their corresponding school divisions.

Alternative Paths Training School continues to strive to provide the optimal services for our students. Over the past few school years, we have used virtual instruction and support to maintain consistency and support for our families and communities during inclement weather/snow days.

However, many of the districts that support our programs have asked that we honor their county policies regarding inclement weather and adhere to the decision allowing their students the same opportunities as their base school peers. Based on their decisions, Alternative Paths will no longer be able to provide virtual instruction on inclement weather days.

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National PowerSchool Incident

January 13, 2025
National PowerSchool Incident

Last week, PowerSchool, an international provider of education administration software, announced that it had suffered a cybersecurity incident in late December. Although security of PowerSchool’s systems has been restored, data pertaining to students and educators at hundreds of school systems around the country were subjected to unauthorized access. The breach was limited to PowerSchool’s internal systems, and security of individual school system networks was not disturbed. Alternative Paths Training School utilizes some PowerSchool tools.

We take the privacy of our students’ and employees’ very seriously and are working with PowerSchool to identify the scope of impact this incident may have had on information pertaining to members of our school community. PowerSchool has assured us that they are investigating this matter and will notify us, and impacted individuals, with the details of information affected. Alternative Paths Training School has not been provided with details of what information was exposed for specific individuals but will continue to work with PowerSchool to thoroughly investigate this matter.