Sarah Gonzalez: Keeping Kids in School
Many teachers and students are leaving the district which makes Oakland's financial woes even worse. Public schools are funded in part based on student attendance, and with enrollment plummeting and students disappearing mid-term, Oakland's schools may well be locked in a cycle of under-funding and under-performance.
According to district statistics, attendance rates in Oakland public high schools have been improving. Many schools—like oakland high—have invested in truancy prevention methods to increase their attendance rates. But Sarah Gonzalez reports that some of those methods seem designed to provide the right numbers, rather than to keep kids in class.
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