Appleton school administrators are seeing some positive signs over the first several months of the district’s new truancy system.
Assistant Superintendent Polly Vanden Boogard says staffers are learning about each student’s needs, and partnering with community groups to help them. She says the schools are working hard to put different interventions in place. She says the early data shows there are some areas that need more work, including some gaps in demographics.
The district put an end to its truancy court a little over a year ago.
The district will eventually get the county’s youth and family services department involved, if students go through the new system and continue to skip school. That happened with seven high school students and three middle school students in the first semester.
