About+the+TPP

=The Truancy Prevention Project =

In the late 1990s, BSD joined forces with the United Way, the Department of Children and Families (then SRS), the State Attorney's Office and others to address the high number of students who dropped out of BHS each year. We worked closely with these community partners to build upon the support already available to at-risk students in the District and develop and implement a uniform set of attendance procedures across the District that would promote consistent school attendance and decrease the truancy and drop out rates. The Truancy Prevention Project, implemented in 1999, includes a letter home after five and 10 days of cumulative absence, a meeting with the principal and others after 15 days of absence, and the possibility of an affidavit and court hearing for truancy after 20 days of cumulative absence. The Truancy Prevention Project has been quite successful over these 10 years, as shown in the above chart, and has been adopted by school districts throughout Chittenden County and several others in Vermont. For more information, visit our website or call me at 865-5383. -Julie Cadwallader-Staub, Grants Director, [|Burlington School District]

See below for this description as it appears in a recent edition of Spotlight, a Burlington School District publication. ( This is also an example of an attached file in wikispaces)