School Administrators Work to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism After Wildfires – September 18, 2019

by recent wildfires havemade getting to school harder. On the North Bay Report, find out how far someschool administrators will go to keep kids in the classroom.

Following a disaster, students tend to miss more school daysto cope with loss and find time to recover. But studies show that missingschool can affect graduation rates and dropouts can have worse health outcomeslater in life. KRCB’s Adia White tells us how school administrators arefighting to keep students in the classroom

This story was produced for the USC Annenberg HealthJournalism Fellowship. For more on wildfire and health visitnorcalpublicmedia.org

(Photo: Director of student services, Dena Kapsalis – AdiaWhite, Nor Cal Public Media)

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