Sentences with phrase «truancy rates»

Sacramento County school districts in Natomas and Galt posted among the highest truancy rates in the region in the 2013 - 14 school year, new data from the California Department of Education show.

The Chester Upland district has seen a decline in truancy rates during the past few years — average attendance was about 80 percent in 1998.

The Fremont SAGE team had won top state honors in spring 2002 for its Business Operations Management Business Academy Student Team (BOMBAST) project, which had nearly halved the school's 70 percent truancy rate.

Reporting this data (along with setting a common chronic truancy rate, for which this publication has long argued) would also be a good step.

In addition, an increasing truancy rate indicated that there would be no improvement.

The Chester Upland district has seen a decline in truancy rates during the past few years — average attendance is now about 80 %.

Evers also laid out improvements since the 2009 - 10 school year, including an increasing graduation rate, fewer students dropping out of high schools, fewer students being suspended or expelled and a dropping truancy rate.

Instead, they were focused on truancy rates and average daily attendance, essentially how many students show up on a typical day.

Dr. David Myers, Director of Secondary Education, Henrico County Public Schools, shares how Henrico has developed partnerships with the county services and resources including the Commonwealth attorneys and judges to cut truancy rates and to develop and implement a tiered intervention strategic plan that includes community resources at every level.

Posters encourage regular attendance at Simon Elementary School in the District, a city that has enormous truancy rates, even among young children.

Contra Costa County far exceeded that with a 29 percent elementary truancy rate while nearby Napa posted a 6 percent rate.

Only four school districts in Sacramento County had lower truancy rates, including San Juan Unified and Folsom Cordova Unified.

Superintendents from the districts with the highest truancy rates signal a larger difficulty: Many schools struggle to understand what are excused absences and how to consistently record the data.

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Communicated with high school counselors to monitor participation behavior issues and student truancy rates.

Parental divorce has also been linked to higher truancy rates and higher dropout rates.

Graduation rates (along with test score growth data) is a critical component of No Child's AYP system, while any overhaul of No Child should include using school discipline data along with chronic truancy rates (ideally, based on 10 or more days of unexcused absence, as used in Indiana) as a component of accountability.

Even so, the report suggests that a 20 percent truancy rate may be too low.

Bullying can also lead to increased truancy rates, which can have an adverse impact on educational achievement.

Hayward traditionally has ranked among Alameda County's highest in truancy rates.

Their truancy rates.

KIPP operated just one high school, and it enrolled only 9th graders, which likely skewed the truancy rate downward compared to the city's district schools.

In the five years since the program was launched, truancy rates have dropped by 61 percent, and suspension rates have been cut in half.

Suspensions and truancy rates were shooting through the roof.

Comparing boys to their sisters in a data set that includes more than 1 million children born in Florida between 1992 and 2002, the authors demonstrate a persistent gender gap in graduation and truancy rates, incidence of behavioral and cognitive disabilities, and standardized test scores.

This brief asserts that students with the highest truancy rates have the lowest academic achievement rates, and because truants are the youth most likely to drop out of school, they have high dropout rates as well.

More important than the truancy rate is the chronic absenteeism rate, Kevy said.

This year's report indicates that those rates were not isolated or unique — truancy rates are persistent in California.

LGBTQ students nationwide face higher levels of depression and lower levels of self - esteem, lower grade point averages, higher truancy rates and staggeringly high rates of physical violence.

Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service reporter Kelly Meyerhofer speaks with Mitch Teich about the truancy rate of Milwaukee Public Schools.

Much like LAUSD's new teacher evaluation system, the CORE waiver application wants school ratings to include dropout rates, graduation rates, truancy rates, school disciple and other criteria.

It has also seen decreases in student drop - out rates and truancy rates.

Suspension and truancy rates were higher than the state average.

The traditional metrics for studying absenteeism — average daily attendance, or truancy rates — don't cut it, according to Chang and Allensworth.

Sure, AYP should be amended to include additional data such as school discipline rates, percentages of middle - schoolers and high school students provided Algebra 1 and other college - preparatory courses, and actual chronic truancy rates (instead of the current approach to calculating attendance that ignores this issue).

The index will also incorporate other factors, such as graduation, suspension and truancy rates, student and parent surveys, and student performance on non-academic measures such as their perseverance.

By coordinating these services, community schools can reduce chronic absences due to poor health, decrease disciplinary issues and truancy rates, and help create a more stable living situation for children at home.

In the Elk Grove district, Elk Grove High School recorded a 68 percent truancy rate, one of the school system's highest.

Chronic absenteeism rates, rather than truancy rates, are now the key measures of attendance improvement.

Jurupa Unified School District reported a truancy rate of 23.5 percent, below both the Riverside County rate of 34 percent and the state average rate of 31 percent.

The school's disciplinary infractions and truancy rates are well above district average.

Children who present difficult behaviour on entry to primary school have been shown to have higher truancy rates, poorer peer - to - peer and student - teacher relationships and achieve lower or no educational qualifications than those without such difficulties.

Preliminary evaluation results show that in some fully resourced Elev8 full service community schools, attendance rates and test scores improved and truancy rates dropped.