Orange County Grand Jury • 2003-2004 • Agency Response
Response to: Combating Truancy In Orange County 06/03/04, 8MB

Board of Education Laguna Beach Unified School District El Hathaway, President*

Published: August 19, 2004 3 pages
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Note: Missing finding numbers detected: F12, F13, F14, F16, F17, F18, F19, F20, F21, F22, F23

Findings and Recommendations 3 findings

F11
(pg. JS-34) Unified school districts do not collect information on habitual truancies and SAR Board referrals at the district levels. Centralia, Garden Grove Unified and Laguna Beach
Related Recommendations (1)
R11
Unified school districts each devise a method to collect data on habitual truancies and information on referrals of habitual truants to a SAR Board, beginning with the 2004- 2005 school year and continuing thereafter. District Response: Each school site has an Effective Behavior Support team which sets specific behavioral expectations, including attendance expectations, and which provides and tracks a continuum of consequences. Attendance data are collected and used for decision making and tracking progress at each school site. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 . LBUSD Response to Grand Jury Report dated May 26, 2004 Combating Truancy in Orange County School districts that limit or curtail their participation on
F15
(pg. JS-35) the County SAR Board because of budgetary constraints may not be aware of the opportunity for reimbursement, through State for federal funding, afforded by Education Code § 48323. All Orange County school districts become aware of the
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R15
opportunity for reimbursement through State or federal funding afforded by California Education Code § 48323, for participating on the County SAR Board. District Response: Laguna Beach Unified School District is now aware. Periodic training of school administrators in preparing
F24
(pg. JS-36) their own SAR Boards for an operating SAR Board (not just an advisory or networking SAR Board) at the County level. The Department of Education formulate a plan whereby all
Related Recommendations (1)
R24
school districts provide equitable financial support to the Probation Department and the District Attorney's Office to ensure that these agencies are able to continue the truancy- abatement services for which the districts are the financial beneficiaries. District Response: Laguna Beach Unified School District will consider participating if the opportunity is available. . . . . . .

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