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Posts Tagged ‘absenteeism’

OUSD cuts attendance positions, despite nationwide ‘crisis’ in absenteeism

By Callie Rhoades | August 10, 2022 | 3
Empty classroom

Oakland Unified started the school year this week without its five network attendance liaisons, whose sole job was to keep kids coming to school, even as the district struggles to get a handle on absenteeism.  The School Board cut the jobs when it approved the 2022-23 budget on June 29. Weeks earlier, Ilene Fortune, a…

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Perata rallies religious community to abate truancy

By Alyssa Fetini | September 16, 2010 | 2
Don Perata at microphone

On Wednesday, Don Perata, former senator and mayoral candidate, hosted a breakfast with more than 50 of Oakland’s most influential religious leaders to solicit their help in addressing school truancy, one of the city’s most pressing challenges.

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