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Identify specific full-time SDE staff whose responsibility is to track and provide technical assistance for truancy initiatives and to work with the Connecticut Consortium on School Attendance to coordinate statewide efforts to increase school attendance. Require Districts that are in the process of being “restructured” pursuant to Public Act 07-3, sec. 32 to include truancy reduction initiatives in their improvement plans that are evidence-based or include “best practices.” SDE’s Secondary School Redesign Draft Plan should include strategies and initiatives for students with a history of poor school attendance, including increased opportunities to access alternative education and vocational education. Implement differential response system for educational neglect referrals. Increase number of FWSN liaisons by two so each court and Family Support Center has coverage. Develop transition program (e.g. STEP) for DCF-committed youth, including truants re-entering school system from respite or other out of home living situation. Collect data and report FWSN referrals and outcomes (including entry into juvenile justice system, grade completion) by category (truant, habitual truant), race, age, town, school, program intervention. Fund and increase number of educational advocates in order for each court to have one full-time SDE SDE SDE DCF DCF DCF CSSD CSSD 17
D. System-wide Prevention Strategies position with responsibility for both FWSN and juvenile justice youth. Raise the age of withdrawal from school from 16 with parents’ permission to 18 (no parental permission needed). Exception should be made for students age 16 or over who are enrolled in Job Corps, join the military with parental permission, or are emancipated. Lower the age of mandatory school attendance from seven years of age to six years of age. Amend PA 07-66 so that neither truancy nor tardiness to class is punished by outside suspension. Mandate that schools file reports for educational neglect rather than FWSN for children 9 years of age and under if parent fails to follow school-parent contract and/or child continues to be truant as defined by CGS § 10-198a(a). Require the Department of Labor, SDE, CSSD and DCF to work with the existing Regional Workforce Development Boards to focus on developing workforce activities that provide incentives to formerly truant students who attend school regularly. CGA CGA CGA CGA DOL, SDE, CSSD & DCF 18
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SDE’s Secondary School Redesign D
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truant students who attend school r
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Handling of FWSN cases. Confidentia
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In response to Special Act 04-5, DC
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for all DCF Social Workers and CSSD
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IX. APPENDICES Table of Contents Ap
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Appendix II FAMILIES WITH SERVICE N
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FWSN ADVISORY BOARD - TRUANCY SUBCO
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LEGISLATIVE DRAFTING SUBCOMMITTEE M
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States continue to struggle with th
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Appendix IV Detailed Population Dem
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Chart 1 shows a detailed analysis o
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Most of the assessed children score
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Appendix V Highlights of Other Prog
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The programs also provide preventio
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Appendix VII Evaluation of FWSN sys
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Table of Contents Introduction Page
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considered “gender-specific” or
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filed during the months of April, M
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or guardian, the child, parent or g
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general statutes, as amended by thi
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X. GLOSSARY OF TERMS ADP - Alternat
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