REMARKS
Council member expresses concerns about Summer Rising attendance rates and student engagement
1:12:58
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Council Member Rita C. Joseph voices strong concerns about the attendance rates in the Summer Rising program and questions the lack of follow-up on absent students.
- The council member states that a 68% attendance rate is not something to celebrate
- She emphasizes the need to know the whereabouts of the 32% of students who are not attending
- Concerns are raised about potential 'missing' students and the lack of outreach to families
- The council member stresses that more work needs to be done to improve attendance and engagement in the program
Rita C. Joseph
1:12:58
68% is not something to celebrate.
1:13:00
68% what are we celebrating?
1:13:02
Where are those kids?
1:13:03
If 9000 kids go missing in our school system, I would like to know where they are and what are they doing, and how we and and how we outreach doing outreach to those families to find out why they're not sitting in our seats.
1:13:17
So it's it's 68% for me is not good enough, and you know, like, Cheers Stevens.
1:13:22
I've been in the trenches 22 years, so 68%.
1:13:25
We we got a lot of work to do.
1:13:27
What happened to those 30 about 32 32% of our students?
