GPS tracking improves attendance of chronically truant students
May 27, 2008 1:14 PM
To bring about better attendance, judge has ordered several chronically
truant students at Bryan Adams High School in Dallas to wear a GPS unit
that tracks their whereabouts. Last school year, 46 chronic truants were ordered
into the program, and their attendance improved from 84 percent to 97 percent
during the six weeks they wore the GPS device. The school is completing its
second year in the Attendance Improvement Management Program, which is funded by
a mix of county, nonprofit and private funds.
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The Dallas Morning News article.
EARLIER: Instead of juvenile detention, some students
at Bryan Adams High School in Dallas have
been placed in a pilot program that electronically monitors chronically
truant
students. Since Jaime Pacheco, a 15-year-old freshman, started carrying
the
Global Positioning System unit April 1, he has had perfect attendance.
The Dallas school system, which, like other large districts, has found
it difficult to manage its large numbers of truant students, is among
the first in the nation to experiment with the electronic monitoring.
To read The New York Times article, click here.
