It’s too late when you’re reactive. You’re already losing kids.

We want to monitor concerns (to see) whether the problem is getting larger. We want to track exactly what’s going on.

We’ll start with those of you that are interested. We can start talking about what we can do, things that we can do to change the environment, change the culture and do what we can...

It was two separate kids with two different gang affiliations.

Some years you get a group of students coming through and every parent wants to be involved, and it’s wonderful. Every once in a while you’ll get a year when no matter what you do...

They did it all last week and part of this week to strengthen the attendance policy. They had so many students coming in late.

First thing we wanted to do is get all the residents on the west side registered. There are so many new residents out there.

It was their moment. It was private. It allowed them to grieve. . . . It was so valuable.

Our procedure is if a student misses school, they’re just counted absent. There have been no comments or big rush or threats of students saying they’re going to leave.