we have an end goal of students graduating college-ready, making sure we reduce truancy and ensure all of our schools are high-performing community schools. we are developing as a high- function carry a team. we are spending a lot of time developing real estate capacity. we bring them together on a regular basis. we meet together regularly in study inquiry groups. we bring them together with each instructional leadership team once a month also so we have a coherent approach across are eight schools. we are only going to be successful if we invest in human capital. we know if we are going to be successful, we really have to make sure and support and provide professional development to our teachers. we are dedicating instructional coaches to provide a demonstration, feedback within classrooms, and making sure they have collaboration with their peers. one glaucous to make sure we are effectively providing reading and instructions. when we are taking on a balance literacy approach and sequencing of what that should look like in each classroom. we want to make sure we have a menu of interve

of truancies, because you cannot force the parents to bring them to school until they are six. she has also worked on high schools, and we have made several referrals. it is highly publicized. it is known that this is a concerted effort, and parents are responding, and as a result, we are improving attendance theory -- attendance. >> i think making sure we do improved upon that dropout rate is one of our end goals. we know that has impacted a lot of what you do see in schools. we have to engage our students. we need to make sure there is a readiness to learn. we are making a commitment to make sure we provide opportunities to be successful when they transition graves. we are taking a close look at grading policies. there are a number of safety nets so not only are they gittins into the college of their -- getting into the college of their choice, but they are succeeding post- secondary are there district attorney's meetings, and a flood -- are succeeding pose secretary. >> are the district attorney's meetings? >> there was a 90% dropout rate in 2007 that has declined to 9% rate

. >> school districts in western alaska are going olddschool to @%ack down on truancy. getting thh cops to enforceea state law ttat allows them to fine parents that be kids skip schooll $500 for very unexcused well some pareets are getting fines in the hundreds, and thousands of dollars. make sure your kid is in school and you don't have to worry abouu it. >> city of detroit pretty mmch bankrupt. one plan to deal with ii is shrink the size of the city. mayor has an idea. stop garbage pick up and police protection to 20% of the city. but common senne said that 20% going away, no matter how much3 you ignore them. >> this is called sight skiing. editioo." you o not see a museum to see >> ffotball version of calter.@ ripken has his streak lightning fast. lightning strong. verizon 4g lte. rule the air on the most advanced 4g network in the world. >> it issa big talk innholllwood mylie cyrus caught on amera smokiig from a bong. >> the hannah montana ssar, that @%rned 18, just last week. was reportedly smokkng salvia there. hhr publicist points out that she is an adult, and ha

. >>> from motorcycle the to truancy to noodles. all are involved in new california laws that are about to take effect. maureen naylor is live in san jose tonight with what you need to know about these new l aws. >> reporter: frank, it is quite arrange. one of the new laws allows residents to serve asian rice noodlessed a room temperature. another targets cyber bullies and was inspired by well manufacture known silicon valley leaders -- by a well- known silicon valley leader. this man says the p rofanity- ladened e-mail was sent to thousands of recipients year'. >> you have a feeling of violation as if someone had broke into your house. they had broken into my identity imposed as me. instead of being a victim, we wanted to be a victor and stand up to cyber bullies. >> he contacted state senator joe smideon. starting january 1st it makes impersonating someone online illegal in california and those doing so face a $1,000 fine and up to a year in jail. my hope is this will serve to the -- will serve as a d eterrent. i hope people learn

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their dropout rate fell by 50% from the 20072008 the district believes increased effort in fighting truancys thought to keep kids in school. two years ago they started holding parents accountable for students who are habitually absent. >> will be back with more a couple of minutes a big story today is the rain man ness ave it is wet pretty much everywhere in san francisco right now and we have heavy rain moving and first in the north 6:55 a.m. we're focused on the forecast and the rain. where everybody will get what today widespread showers all day long and then a chance lenders and by the weekend looks like we cleared out. sunday looks like the best of the weekend if you would like it dry and sunny. 72 degrees and that lenders over into the next work week the next chance of rain comes in early to mid next week. >> colosio showed off what google thinks will be the future of the web. tech reporter did sleep was bearish shows as the next big thing for the internet. >> the google web store it offers applications for a computer. application of smart phones has been come popular all lot of us ha

office for several years regarding truancy and chronic truant students. that's really starting to show improvement because as you know when children are in school more to do better in school which reflects and their ability to graduates >>. the district is happy about the numbers but said more can be done to reduce the dropout rate in san francisco. i scare in the air today passengers on board of continental airlines flight from san jose to houston or caught in a bind. but the plane was forced to land in albuquerque because of an unruly passenger. it the passenger had to be subdued by other people on board the flight. one of those heroes on board brenda murray, talked kron 4 about the incident moments ago. >> two-thirds of the way through the flight there is a disturbance the guy it evidently got copied and walking around a look like he was kind of a little nervous, sweating profusely like he might of been getting sec. psychotic guyana for obvious reasons i did want to be in the line of sight of him and he made around for the emergency exit and some guys

under the state's new truancy law parents of k through 8 students who miss more than 10% of the schoolwithout a good cause face up to a year in jail an $2,000 fine. >>> amber alerts will be used for more than finding missing kids in the new year. the alert system will also be used when a suspect is on the loose after attacking a law enforcement officer. the so-called blue alerts will be used when an officer is killed or seriously injured. vehicle and suspect descriptions will appear on those freeway signs as well as tv and radio broadcasts. >>> bakers are going to have to stop using transfat oils in 2011. restaurants and cafeterias, fast foot vendors have had at least a year to switch to the alternative oils. california is the first state in the nation to ban the so-called artery-clogging oils. >>> well, the new law will let you lease out your car when you're not using it. that means you'll be able to avoid buying additional insurance. coming up in less than 10 minutes, marla tellez will tell us about a law that's foeg to make every parent happy and could help save them some cash in th

the district police and increased efforts in fighting truancy has helped keep kids in school this startedng parents accountable of students there were absent. we will take a break, much more straight ahead. a live look at sfo, rebel delays of two hours and 13 minutes. if you have a flight, planting time. we'll be right back. and we're back, storm tracker 4 our whole lot of activity, rain is coming down from most of the they light in some spots you consider the heavier doses are in yellow north bay seeing that some guards in the east bay, san the san ramon valley, look offshore and a bunch of yellow head of our way, heavier rain headed for the north bay comedy, peninsula. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. rain is heavy today to mark tapering off, there's to come friday light, setting ourselves up for a great weekend. things would read just a bit. more weather and a minute. more news, the man who lost his job playing santa for telling i guess you could call them to be jerks to some of the dough visitors taking his act to buy new gate. 51-year-old lucio rivera-avila, knew the vict

>> yeah, apparently the way it works and this is a truancy thing where state legislators thought, youe spending all this money on schools. we've got to put some teeth in them if the parents won't have the parental responsibility to get their kids there. what we'll do is we'll set up a system where first they get a warning and then we have a meeting and if the parents fly in the face of this request to have your kids go to school as mandated by law, then we'll start fining them and it's ironic one of the school districts up in the bearing straits school district, apparently the first parent that was fined was a former village police safety officer charged $100 last month. >> yeah, it turns out the attendance counsellor said the minute i got hired i wanted to do this. a lot of the law enforcement officials were worried that not enough attention would be given to people committing felonies as opposed to a 9-year-old skipping school. >> when we have this debate in the country, one of the main reasons why educators believe some students are failing is there is no parent involvement. maybe