November 21, 2023
Problem Newly Revealed in Juvenile Hall Schools: A Failure to Get Kids to Class
Students who attend school inside juvenile detention centers have long struggled to get a proper education and graduate on time. But there’s a lesser-known challenge as well: Incarcerated students who don’t show up for class.
Roughly 17% of youth serving time in county facilities were marked as “chronically absent” in the latest available school data, according to a recently released report by the San Francisco-based Youth Law Center. In school districts located in Ventura, Alameda and Santa Cruz counties, half or more of all young people are regularly missing instruction time. Read more in this article from The Imprint