BILL ANALYSIS �
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SENATE THIRD READING
SCR 67 (Liu)
As Amended August 26, 2013
Majority vote
SENATE VOTE :34-2
RULES 10-0
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|Ayes:|Gordon, Wilk, Bigelow, |
| |Brown, Gonzalez, Hagman, |
| |Nazarian, |
| |V. Manuel P�rez, Quirk, |
| |Weber |
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SUMMARY : Designates September 2013 as School Attendance
Awareness Month, and would encourage public officials,
educators, and communities in California to observe the month
with appropriate activities and programs. Specifically, this
resolution makes the following legislative findings:
1)Good school attendance is essential to pupil achievement and
graduation, and systemic approaches are needed to reduce
chronic absenteeism rates in California; and, missing 10% or
more of school, which can be two or three days a month, is a
proven predictor of academic trouble.
2)The impact of chronic absence hits low-income pupils and
children of color particularly hard if they do not have the
resources to make up for lost time in the classroom; and these
pupils are more likely to face systemic barriers to getting to
school, such as unreliable transportation, lack of access to
health care, unstable or unaffordable housing and even unfair
disciplinary policies.
3)Improving school attendance and reducing chronic absence takes
commitment, collaboration, and tailored approaches to address
particular challenges and strengths in each community; and,
schools and school districts must do more to track, calculate,
and share the data on how many and which pupils are
chronically absent so that schools and communities can work to
deliver the right interventions to the right pupils.
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4)School attendance can be improved, and chronic absence
significantly reduced, when schools, parents, and communities
work together to monitor and promote good attendance and
address hurdles that keep children from getting to school.
FISCAL EFFECT : None
Analysis Prepared by : Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800
FN: 0002781