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Union assistant principal outlines home‑visit strategy to curb chronic absenteeism
Summary
Assistant principal Miss Boyer described a '100 percent, one student at a time' effort that used home visits, focus groups and parent outreach to re‑enroll students; she cited district chronic absenteeism at 27% and said the high school rate was about 41%.
Miss Boyer, the high school’s assistant principal of student engagement, told the Union School Board she launched a targeted outreach program to reduce chronic absenteeism that relies on home visits, community outreach and individualized plans.
“We were at ground zero,” Miss Boyer said, describing district chronic absenteeism at about 27 percent and a high school rate near 41 percent with 268 non‑graduates from the class of 2025. She described bringing a partner (Norma) into the role to help with door‑to‑door contact, translation and family engagement and said the team tracked and re‑enrolled students who had been…
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