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"Truant San Francisco youths and their parents may face criminal charges if the student fails to attend school on a regular basis, San Francisco\u2019s district attorney announced Wednesday.District Attorney Kamala Harris \u2014 along with Mayor Gavin Newsom, interim Superintendent Gwen Chan and other law enforcement officials \u2014 also announced Tuesday a one-year, $450,000 grant to bring staff support to additional schools where truancy is a problem.Two years ago, many of the same San Francisco officials announced a city-funded, $395,000 anti-truancy effort, called the Stay In School Initiative, with a stated goal of raising the average daily attendance of each school to at least 96 percent. In addition to helping at-risk kids, the program also promised to recover millions of state dollars usually lost due to chronic absenteeism.According to the latest program report, 2,604 students on average were absent last year from the district each day."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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