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Tehachapi Unified reports slight enrollment dip, outlines actions to reduce chronic absenteeism
Summary
Superintendent Brian Bell and attendance staff told the board that district attendance is up from last year but remains below goal (about 93.58% year-to-date); staff described tools, home visits and incentives aimed at recovering chronically absent students and noted the chronic list includes roughly 700 names (many may be withdrawn).
Tehachapi Unified School District leaders told the board on Nov. 18 that student attendance has improved compared with some prior years but still falls short of the district goal and that staff are intensifying outreach to chronically absent students.
“School attendance is important,” said Cathy Guy, the district truancy officer, introducing an attendance initiative that pairs Aeries/KIDS data with messaging tools and site-level teams. Guy said the district’s year-to-date attendance rate appears on district slides as about 93.58 percent and that the state’s definition of chronic absenteeism — missing 10 percent of…
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