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Pasco updates Attend & Achieve data; board pushes for truancy court amid strained outside partner capacity
Summary
Senior supervisor Jonathan Chasen detailed attendance outreach, statutory triggers and data showing 2,125 students at 10 unexcused absences and 1,209 at 15; district referred about 540 students to Youth Family Alternatives but reported YFA staffing shortages, prompting the superintendent and board members to pursue establishing a truancy court as an additional tool.
Jonathan Chasen, senior supervisor for student services, presented the district's Attend & Achieve update, outlining statutory attendance triggers, district interventions and recent metrics for chronic absenteeism.
Chasen defined chronic absenteeism as missing 10% of the school year (excused or unexcused) and described statutory triggers that require stepwise intervention: schools flag students at five unexcused absences in 30 days, and a 10-to-15-day window requires a formal meeting to consider referral for more intensive support. Chasen said the district expanded training (multiple sessions for student-support staff and administrators) and built documentation processes into the student information system to ensure meetings and remediation plans are recorded.
Chasen gave quarter-to-date figures: at the close of the first quarter 52…
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