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School attendance and education challenges in juvenile detention
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Council Member Stevens inquires about school attendance rates and educational challenges in juvenile detention facilities. Commissioner Dannhauser provides information on attendance and efforts to improve education services.
- Approximately 80% of youth required to attend school do so daily
- Dedicated staff work to engage youth and encourage school attendance
- Challenges include coordinating around court dates and medical appointments
- Issues raised by providers include the need for more individualized attention, especially for students with IEPs
- The council is planning further discussions with education officials to address these challenges
Althea V. Stevens
4:34:31
What is the presence of young people at Crossroads and Horizon that are going to school each day?
Jess Dannhauser
4:34:39
So there's of the group that's compulsory, think we were around, somewhere around 80% that are going to school every day.
4:34:47
You heard from the school liaisons the work that they're doing, some of the young people engaging them when they're newly there to be able to come in.
4:34:54
That includes, you know, we've got court dates that young people have to miss school for, they have medical appointments they have to miss school for, but we're really working in coordination with, not only with New York City Public Schools, but we've dedicated staff, who you met yesterday too, right, who are responsible for going on the halls, getting young people engaged and getting them to school and it's working.
Althea V. Stevens
4:35:18
Yeah.
4:35:18
We definitely saw that but I know some of the issues that the providers talked about even with the education piece was you know they travel by I think what is it called bunks or groups?
4:35:30
Halls.
4:35:31
Yeah, they're halls that that the that they're not getting the needed attention whether it's around like the IEPs and you know being able to have distinguished education.
4:35:42
So definitely we'll love to talk further about some ways that we can help improve that which was one of the reasons why we had chair Joseph on the visit yesterday to kind of see how we can get some suggestions.
4:35:55
I know the superintendent came in at the end but we're gonna meet with her as well to kind of talk about some of the suggestions as well.
4:36:03
Great.