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Home > Schools > Pupil Personnel Services > Academic Success

Academic Success

What we do to ensure academic success:

  •  Provide individual and family consultation for students with chronic attendance/ discipline problems.
  • Conduct attendance hearings.
  • Petition cases to District Court when families violate the Compulsory Education Law.
  • Conduct home visits to promote family involvement.
  • Act as student/family advocates with the school system and community agencies.
  • Respond to emergency welfare situations for students and families.
  • Counsel/conference with individuals and groups.
  • Provide crisis support for schools.
  • Facilitate student placements in alternative education programs.
  • Coordinate home and hospital teaching for qualified students.
  • Monitor/supervise home schooling cases.
  • Serve as members of the school problem-solving teams.
  • Assist in Federal Law 504 implementation.
  • Actively participate in Individual Education Program committee meetings.
  • Case manage homeless students.
  • Provide tutorial services for homeless student's.
  • Arrange transportation services for homeless students.
  • Conduct training workshops on the educational rights of homeless students.
  • Perform other administrative duties as needed on behalf of students.
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