Truancy Reduction Team to Hit the Streets

NEWS RELEASE # 57
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 1, 2013

WHAT: APS tackles truancy with door knocking campaign
WHEN: February 5, 10 a.m. (news conference followed by door knocking campaign)
WHERE: Professional Learning and Conference Center, 15771 East 1^st Avenue, 80011

  

Truancy Reduction Team to Hit the Streets

 

Aurora Public Schools continues to work hard in curbing truancy. It is often the dedication of those behind-the-scenes that brings students back to school. In APS, this group is known as the truancy reduction team.

The work of the truancy reduction team resulted in more than 400 students coming back to school this year. That brings a total of more than $2.7 million to the district in per pupil revenue.

Truancy reduction team members make home visits every day. The annual APS truancy door knocking campaign will feature the APS truancy team and the effort behind bringing students back to school. Two APS students will also share their amazing stories of how a truancy reduction team member helped changed their lives.

Following the news conference, APS Superintendent John L. Barry will join the truancy reduction team members and other staff members for a truancy door knocking campaign. The group will knock on the doors of APS students who have been chronically truant this year. The goal is to invite these students back to school.

Last year, nearly half of all APS schools had no habitual truants or showed some decrease in the percentage of habitual truants. Of the 112 students in the 2011-12 truancy program, 61% showed a reduction in unexcused absences.

Members of the media are invited to join Superintendent Barry and other APS staff members at the news conference and as they visit homes to encourage truant students to return to school. 

 

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Interested media may contact APS News Media Specialist
Paula Hans at 303-326-2755 for more information