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ABOUT ATTENDANCE?
Legally: The Compulsory Education Law requires all children between the ages of 6 and 18 to attend school on a consistent and regular basis. It is the parent’s responsibility to make sure their children are in school. It is the law!
A+ Academically: High levels of attendance boost academic performance. Students keep current in their classrooms, demonstrate a commitment to their own education, and learn great things!
Financially: Revenue for California schools is generated by student attendance. It’s all about ADA (Average Daily Attendance).
It’s as simple as this: When a student is present for any portion of a school day (even 5 minutes!), funds are generated (approx. $31 per day). When a student is absent all day for any reason (ill, excused, not excused, it doesn’t matter), funds are not generated. During the 2008-09 school year, Covina-Valley Unified School District totaled:
108,065 Absences
That’s about 600 absences per day… $3.4 million in lost revenue to the District!
Absences are expensive both academically and financially.
If your child must stay home from school, please consider a voluntary donation of $31 (or whatever is comfortable) for the day of lost revenue. Checks may be payable to C-VUSD and delivered or mailed to your school site or the District office at 519 E. Badillo Street, Covina, 91723.
Please contact your school site as soon possible to report your student’s absence.
Thank you!
| Period 0 | 6:55 | - | 7:45 | |
| Period 1 | 7:50 | - | 8:42 | |
| Period 2 | 8:47 | - | 9:47 | |
| Brunch | 9:47 | - | 9:57 | |
| Period 3 | 10:02 | - | 10:54 | |
| Period 4 | 10:59 | - | 11:51 | |
| Period 5 | Intervention/Lunch | 11:51 | - | 12:56 |
| Period 6 | 1:01 | - | 1:53 | |
| Period 7 | 1:58 | - | 2:50 |
Access to the SARCs can be achieved as follows:
Go to the CVUSD Website: http://www.cvusd.k12.ca.us
Select the link in the upper left corner labeled "Accountability" then "high schools" then "Covina High"
Dear Colt Family,
Get ready for a great year at Covina High School! Our first day of school will begin on Monday, August 30. Offices will open at 8:00 a.m. on August 16, for registration. Our mailer home this year only contains this letter and important forms and information you will need to complete the registration process. On the day your student registers, he or she will receive a Covina Valley Unified District folder that has important information that should be reviewed together when your student brings it home. You will also receive a school calendar with important dates for the entire year and a reminder of what documents are posted on our website at www.covinahigh.net, such as our dress code and student handbook.
Our school year has been shortened this year by five days due to the budget crisis in our state. The district had to address a 6.5 million dollar deficit. Due to these cuts, staff members will receive 8-10 furlough days this year. This amounts to about a 5% salary cut for all employees. Teachers will not be attending school two days prior to school starting as they previously have, and we have shortened the end of the year by five days. School will end on Wednesday, June 8. The cost of Health and Welfare benefits to all employees was increased as well. We applaud the CUEA, CSEA, CVUSD employees and District personnel for the time they have spent to address the state of our schools in this difficult time. We are all working together to maintain positive attitudes and continue to prepare our students to be successful individuals in our community.
This year, our district is going to pilot an Aeries Parent Access Program, which will give our parents access to their students academic progress and weekly assignments. Parents will receive a password and information at a later date once this program is in place. We look forward to opening the lines of communication between our parents and teachers to help improve student achievement. Last year we introduced the PLASCO system to monitor our tardies and attendance. We saw an approximate 50% reduction in tardies throughout the school year. I want to thank parents for their cooperation and for being part of the team to help our students see the importance of being on time and not losing classroom instruction time. This year we are continuing to focus on finding ways to recoup average daily attendance money (ADA) from our attendance. We will be focusing on students who are not attending school and finding incentives to change this behavior. Please discuss the importance of attendance to school on a daily basis.
Política sobre las Tardanzas/Ausentismo Año Escolar 2010/2011
No hay otro factor más importante que el tiempo dedicado al trabajo en clase bajo la orientación de un educador profesional.
La asistencia se toma diariamente a los estudiantes y es un requisito estar en clase a tiempo todos los días. Cada maestro de clase tendrá una actividad de “calentamiento” al comienzo de la clase cada día. Los estudiantes que lleguen tarde perderán puntos resultando en una calificación académica baja.
Política de Tardanza:
1ra Ofensa: Advertencia del maestro
2da Ofensa: Advertencia del maestro
3ra Ofensa: Advertencia del maestro; el maestro/a se pone en contacto con los padres y documenta el incidente
4ta Ofensa: 1/2 hora de detención asignada y monitoreada por el maestro/a de clase. (La falta de cumplimiento resultará en una doble detención).
5ta Ofensa: 1 hora de detención asignada por el maestro/a de clase. (La falta de cumplimiento resultará en la remisión al administrador encargado de la asistencia).
6ta Ofensa: Remisión al administrador encargado de la asistencia lo cual resultará en el otorgamiento de un contrato por tardanzas de la Escuela Secundaria Covina. Los estudiantes con un contrato por tardanzas estarán sujetos a las siguiente posibles consecuencias:
- Tarea de recuperación de créditos
- Escuela del sábado/servicio comunitario
- Suspensión
- Pérdida de privilegios (bailes, pase para el almuerzo, permisos)
- Conferencia con los padres
- Remoción del período de clase
- Agregación del período cero (Estudio Independiente)
- Remisión a SART/SARB
- Revocación de permisos
- Transferencia/colocación alternativa
- Ofensores habituales del 1er período: deben registrarse en la oficina a las 7:30 a.m.
Política sobre las Tardanzas:
Todas las ausencias deben ser autorizadas por la Oficina de Asistencia dentro de un período de dos (2) días. Por favor llame al (626) 974-6000 para hablar con la oficinista de asistencia.
Las oficinistas y los maestros revisarán la asistencia de los estudiantes con regularidad. Las ausencias que no son autorizadas resultarán en la escuela del sábado. Las ausencias continuas resultaran en lo siguiente:
- Remisión al Administrador de Asistencia
- Cartas sobre la Asistencia
- Contrato con el Equipo de Revisión de la Asistencia Escolar (SART, por sus siglas en inglés)
- Advertencia formal por un Oficial de Recursos Escolares (Dep. de Policía de Covina)
- Citación a corte por un Oficial de Recursos Escolares
- Visita al Hogar
- Remisión a la Junta Directiva de Asistencia Escolar (SARB, por sus siglas en inglés)
- Remoción del salón de clase y colocación en el programa de estudios independientes
Los estudiantes que están decididos a continuar faltando sin autorización (sin el permiso de los padres o su conocimiento) o a estar ausentes por un período de clase durante el día escolar, serán multados.
El propósito de la política de tardanza/ausentismo es el asegurar que los estudiantes tomen total ventaja de las oportunidades educativas ofrecidas en la Escuela Secundaria Covina.
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