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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">September Attendance Awareness Month 2015</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Attendance Awareness Month is a nationwide recognition of
the connection between school attendance and academic achievement. The goal is
to mobilize schools and communities to promote the value of good attendance and
to take concrete steps toward reducing chronic absence. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Improving student attendance is an essential, cost-effective,
but often overlooked strategy for ensuring our students are on-track to learn
and succeed. Nationwide, as many as one out of 10 students is chronically
absent, meaning they miss 10 percent or more of school days, or nearly a month.
Chronic absence is a leading, early warning indicator of academic trouble and
later dropout.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">The good news is that chronic absence is a problem we can
solve. While addressing some attendance barriers—such as health, poor
transportation, and unstable housing—can often require longer-term strategies,
everyone can make a difference by helping students and families understand that
going to school every day and avoiding absences whenever possible is critical
to realizing their hopes and dreams. Too often, we don’t realize how quickly
absences add up: missing just two days every month can cause a child to fall
behind.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">For questions about attendance check out the BHS Attendance
Website at </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://bhs.berkeleyschools.net/parents/attendance/" target="_blank">bhs.berkeleyschools.net/parents/attendance/</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(79,129,189);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Marguerite Fa-Kaji, Catherine Ference and Dylan Kaufman are
the parent-volunteer facilitators of the Etree; please direct any questions
about the Etree to them at </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><a href="mailto:bhs-owner@lmi.net" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,176,240)">bhs-owner@lmi.net</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(79,129,189);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(79,129,189);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">BHS etree archives: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><a href="http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/" target="_blank" title="http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/"><span style="color:rgb(0,176,240)">http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
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