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Addressing truancy is a high-stakes game for San Francisco

By: George Gascón and Carlos Garcia 10/18/11 9:59 PM
Transitioning from middle school to high school can be a difficult time in a young person’s life. Last year, Jessica was an eighth-grader at an academic middle school in San Francisco. Challenged by family instability and little adult supervision, she missed almost half of her eighth-grade year.  Read More

San Francisco officials launch program aimed at keeping ninth-graders coming to school

By: Amy Crawford 10/17/11 10:14 PM
George Gascon
Educators often note that how a student does in ninth grade is a good indicator of whether he or she will graduate from high school. And showing up for class is a critical part of that. Read More

More San Francisco students staying in class

By: Amy Crawford 09/23/11 4:00 AM
Angel Carvajal has heard all the excuses. Some students just feel like taking a day off. They oversleep. The bus is running late. “Muni’s a big one,” Carvajal said. “Muni makes a lot of kids late.” The student adviser at Everett Middle School in the Mission district is in charge of making sure kids are in class every day. Carvajal tells them there are only three valid excuses for being late or missing school: illness, a death in the family or a family emergency. Read More

Dropout rates rise in San Francisco schools

By: Andrea Koskey 08/11/11 10:15 PM
San Francisco high schools
Kids in San Francisco bolted from high school at a much higher rate last year than the year prior, according to data released by the California Department of Education — but officials in The City might have the answer for keeping them in class. Read More

Cuccinelli: Sheriffs can assist in school truancy cases

By: David Sherfinski 11/22/10 10:40 AM
A sheriff’s office can lawfully assist local schools with enforcing attendance laws without a court order, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has ruled.             The official advisory opinion was issued in response to an inquiry from Sheriff B.J. Roberts of the City of Hampton. Read More

Crackdown targets truancy at ground level

By: Erin Sherbert 08/24/10 12:00 AM
Mayor Gavin Newsom will start asking local merchants to rat on kids who are seen around town during school hours as part of his aggressive plan to curb class cutting. His first stop today: The Inner Mission, a hot spot for truant students, with many enrolled in neighborhood schools, including Mission and John O’Connell high schools, saidHydra Mendoza, the mayor’s education adviser. Read More

City officials ramp up efforts to curb truancy at problem campuses

By: Erin Sherbert 08/03/10 12:00 AM
Getty Images file photo
With the school year only two weeks away, roughly 56,000 students are expected to flood the doors of San Francisco campuses. However, at least 9,000 will stay away. They are the kids who are chronically or habitually truant. Read More

Scrutinizing truancy policies

By: Examiner Staff Writer 07/21/10 12:00 AM
District 8 Supervisor Bevan Dufty will hold a hearing Thursday on the truancy initiatives being used by the San Francisco Unified School District and The City. The hearing will address the effectiveness of current programs and the direction of future initiatives. Also, the new Truancy Assessment and Referral Center and Bayview CARES Center will be discussed. Read More

SFUSD tries to curb truancy at elementary level

By: Mike Aldax 06/10/10 12:00 AM
AP file photo
High absenteeism in elementary schools has come into focus as the San Francisco Unified School District loses hundreds of thousands of dollars each year in state funding. Read More

Why prosecute parents of chronically truant students?

By: Staff report 09/24/08 12:00 AM
Joe did not show up for school last Monday. And he didn’t show up Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday. No one from his family called to say he was going to be out. Joe is only 8 years old. Yet in the first few weeks of the school year, he simply did not show up to school more than a dozen times. Read More
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