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Mentoring part of way to improve attendance
Updated: Sunday, 10 Feb 2013, 12:46 PM CST
Published : Saturday, 09 Feb 2013, 11:08 AM CST
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Carmen Ruffino, a mentor with Aim Truancy Solutions, explains how she works with Austin high school students being tracked by a GPS device. Hundreds of students in nine schools in the Austin Independent School District are participating in the program this year, and a number of them have seen their attendance improve.
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There are more than 800 students in the program who joined on a volunteer basis. They are selected due to struggling attendance or if they are chronically late to class. Mentors are often college students, or slightly older, who communicate with students between three to five times a week.
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