华盛顿市长 Bowser 扩大逃学干预试点：第7与第8区所有公立高中纳入，第二年报告显示参与学生再逃学比例下降64%
华盛顿特区市长 Muriel Bowser 与特区人类服务部（DHS）宣布，「逃学减少试点计划」将在2026-27学年扩展至第7区与第8区的每一所特区公立学校及公立特许高中，这两个区是全特区逃学率最高的地区，计划重点支持9年级与10年级学生。
DHS 同步发布的试点第二年最终报告显示，第一年被转介至试点的学生中，仅36%在第二年再次逃学，即再逃学比例下降64%；相比之下，全特区在2024-25学年逃学的学生中有86%在2025-26学年再次逃学。报告还显示，转介至简短个案管理的学生中38%出勤改善，转介至强化个案管理的学生中44%出勤改善。
Bowser 说：「学生每缺课一天，就失去一天机会。这次扩展意味着更多家庭将得到支持，让每一天都算数。」该试点始于2024年8月，以早期干预服务取代把逃学学生转介至儿童福利与法院系统的做法：初中生无故全天缺课达10天、高中生达15天时，家庭即被对接 DHS 牵头的服务。DHS 部长 A. D. Rachel Pierre 表示，个案经理坐下来与家庭一起弄清究竟是什么挡在学生与教室之间时，出勤就会出现真实可测的改变。
Mayor Bowser Expands the Truancy Reduction Pilot to Every Public High School in Wards 7 and 8: the Year 2 Report Shows a 64 Percent Reduction in Repeat Truancy Among Participants
Washington, D.C. — Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Department of Human Services (DHS) announced that the District's Truancy Reduction Pilot Program will expand to every DC Public Schools and public charter high school in Wards 7 and 8 in School Year 2026-27, building on two years of results. Wards 7 and 8 have the highest rates of truancy in the District, and the pilot places emphasis on 9th and 10th grade students.
DHS also released the pilot's Year 2 Final Report, covering August 2025 through June 2026, which shows that only 36 percent of students referred to the pilot in Year 1 were truant again in Year 2 — a 64 percent reduction. By contrast, 86 percent of students District-wide who were truant in SY24-25 were truant again in SY25-26. The report also found that 38 percent of students referred to Brief Case Management improved their attendance, as did 44 percent of students referred to the PASS intensive case management program.
"Every day a student misses school is a day of opportunity lost. This expansion means more families will have the support they need to make every day count," Mayor Bowser said. The pilot, which began in August 2024, replaces referrals to child welfare and courts for truant students with early-intervention services; families are connected to DHS-led services once a student reaches 10 unexcused full-day absences in middle school or 15 in high school. "When our case managers sit down with a family and figure out what's actually standing between a student and the classroom, we see real, measurable change," said DHS Director A. D. Rachel Pierre.
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