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Truancy assessment centers describe early-intervention model as lawmakers prepare legislation on attendance
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Representatives of Louisiana's Truancy Assessment and Service (TAS/TASK) centers told the Senate Education Committee that early, school-based intervention reduces later delinquency, and they urged continued or expanded funding for localized centers that combine assessment, case management and wraparound services.
Officials from the state's Truancy Assessment and Service centers briefed the Senate Education Committee on March 18 about the centers' early-intervention model, which they said focuses on kindergarten through fifth grade to keep children attached to school and reduce later juvenile delinquency.
Braylon Matias, program manager for the state commission's truancy assessment service centers, and local directors described the TASK model: a school referral is triggered when a student accumulates five unexcused absences;…
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