School improvement plans to identify attendance strategies

Jessica Arp:

Schools across the Madison Metropolitan School District submitted reports this week on how they can do a better job.

Those "school improvement reports" will be made public in the next couple weeks, and what's inside them may help the United Way of Dane County target an effort started earlier this year.

WISC-TV first told you about the "Here!" campaign by the United Way on the first day of school. The effort is a push to reduce the number of absences, specifically in kindergarten.

"Up to 25 percent of our Latino kids are regularly absent and about 35 percent of our African American kids are regularly absent and that's unacceptable" said Sal Carranza, co-chair of the Here! Advisory Council for the United Way of Dane County.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at November 5, 2013 12:28 AM
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