Jack Brandais | Communications Department | San Diego Unified School District | (619) 725-5570 (Desk) | (619) 607-0477 (Cell)
On 4/2/12 3:13 PM, "COMMUNICATIONS" <COMMUNICATIONS@cde.ca.gov<mailto:COMMUNICATIONS@cde.ca.gov>> wrote:
[Description: News Advisory]
ADV#12-32
CONTACT: Tina Jung
FOR PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY
PHONE: 916-319-0818
April 2, 2012
E-MAIL: communications@cde.ca.gov<mailto:communications@cde.ca.gov>
State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson to Participate in
Attendance Improvement News Conference in San Diego
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson will participate in a news conference Tuesday in San Diego to discuss the school district's success at boosting school attendance. Torlakson recently named the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) one of 11 models of attendance improvement by the state School Attendance Review Board<http://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr12/yr12rel28.asp>.
Torlakson will speak about SDUSD's successful system and what other school districts may learn from it. Other speakers will include SDUSD's Superintendent of Schools Bill Kowba and School Board President John Lee Evans. Also on hand will be the district's information technology director and a principal from a school that is using Orbit software, a "dashboard" that allows schools and the district to monitor attendance on a daily basis.
For more information on the district's attendance improvement and dropout prevention efforts, please contact Jack Brandais in SDUSD's Communications Department at 619-725-5570.
Date
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Time
10:30 a.m.
Place
San Diego Unified School District Headquarters,
4100 Normal St., San Diego
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The California Department of Education (CDE) is a state agency led by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson. For more information, please visit http://www.cde.ca.gov<http://www.cde.ca.gov/> or by mobile device at http://m.cde.ca.gov/. You may also follow Superintendent Torlakson on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/TorlaksonSSPI and Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/CAEducation.
California Department of Education, Communications Division
1430 N Street, Suite 5602, Sacramento, CA 95814
Main: 916-319-0818; Fax: 916-319-0100
E-Mail: communications@cde.ca.gov<mailto:dfernandez@cde.ca.gov>; URL: www.cde.ca.gov/nr/<http://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/>