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Lakeview principal credits music, classroom practices and attendance work for lower chronic absenteeism
Summary
At a Lakeside Union School District board meeting, Lakeview Elementary Principal Tiger Roy reported completion of a weekly music program funded by Prop 28, a drop in chronic absenteeism for English learners from 21% to 12% and district efforts to turn classroom talk into written math explanations.
Lakeview Elementary Principal Tiger Roy told the Lakeside Union School District Board of Education that the site has used Prop 28 funds to provide weekly music instruction for every student and has seen chronic absenteeism fall among English learners from 21% to 12% and overall from 10% to 4%.
Roy said the school’s three goals this year were universal weekly music lessons, reducing chronic absenteeism (especially among English learners) and boosting student performance on state math assessments. “Goal number one, achieved,” Roy said of the music program,…
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