By Blaine Corren, California Courts Newsroom, March 4, 2020
A two-day event organized by the Judicial Council recently brought together teams from 10 counties to focus awareness on student suspension rates and chronic absenteeism in rural communities.
The event, held Feb. 27–28 in Sacramento, enabled rural county representatives to learn about the work of the Chief Justice's Keeping Kids in School and Out of Court initiative.
"We know that since 2013 chronic truancy and absenteeism, at least in California, has dropped by 50%, but we still have numbers in the hundreds of thousands," said Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil Sakauye in her welcoming remarks. "I know the demands and special needs of rural counties because they're the same as rural courts. We know that for as unique as you are, you carry challenges that no other county faces in your services and lack of resources."
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