{"id":5935,"date":"2010-10-06T12:30:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T19:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/?p=5935"},"modified":"2010-10-06T15:17:51","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T22:17:51","slug":"the-impact-of-truancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/the-impact-of-truancy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of Truancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Students are considered truant after three days of unexcused absences. A <strong>habitual truant<\/strong> is a student with unexcused absences totaling 10 or more days of school.  A <strong>chronic truant<\/strong> is a student with unexcused absences totaling 20 or more days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; In 2009, San Francisco Unified School District had 56,000 students. Approximately <strong>16 percent<\/strong> were either habitual (3,000) or chronic (6,000) truant students<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; In 2006, San Francisco\u2019s truancy was worse than the statewide average and higher than Alameda, Contra Costa, Los Angeles and San Diego counties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; In 2006, there were <strong>5,500 habitual or chronic truants in San Francisco schools<\/strong>, 10 percent of the total student body.\u00a0Of those, nearly 2,500 (44%) were elementary school students.\u00a0Two-thirds of habitually and chronically truant students in San Francisco are African American or Latino.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; It is estimated that high school dropouts cost Californians over <strong>$46 billion<\/strong> over the lifetimes of the 120,000 students who fail to graduate each year, including nearly $10 billion from increased crime alone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Researchers estimate that an increase of 10 percentage points in graduation rates would cut murders and assaults by <strong>20 percent<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; On average 75 percent of truants will drop out of high school. <strong>75\u00a0percent<\/strong> of our nation\u2019s incarcerated criminals are habitual truants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Over the last four years, <strong>94 percent<\/strong> of San Francisco\u2019s homicide victims under the age of 25 were high school dropouts.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ad\u2014Office of the District Attorney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Students are considered truant after three days of unexcused absences. A habitual truant is a student with unexcused absences totaling 10 or more days of school. A chronic truant is a student with unexcused absences totaling 20 or more days. &#8212; In 2009, San Francisco Unified School District had 56,000 students. 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