On April 9, 2025, it was announced that 19 school attendance review boards (SARBs) -- INCLUDING SJUSD -- were designated as model programs by the State SARB for exemplary practices that have contributed to reducing chronic absenteeism rates and improving student attendance.
The announcement by Tony Thurmond, State Superintendent states, "The Model SARB Recognition Program identifies and recognizes multi-tiered school attendance improvement programs at the district or county level, including efforts to reduce the use of exclusionary school discipline practices of suspensions and expulsions and replace them with prevention efforts and positive alternative means of correction. Attendance interventions have been modified to address students in independent study and students in quarantines."
Dr. Courtney Hall, Executive Director of Student, Community & Personnel Support accepted the District Award at the California Association of Supervisors of Child Welfare and Attendance State Conference on April 28.
THANK YOU to our amazing district attendance team: Juan Penaloza (POSA), Martha Gutierrez, Carmina Camacho, Anna Rodriguez (Attendance Specialists), Silvia Villegas (Truancy Officer) and the amazing APs and Attendance Clerks that oversee attendance at the sites.