Kiarah Young
Kiarah Young
Student,
"Be Here, Every Day Counts" campaign, Sacramento City Unified School District
Kiarah Young graduated from the Sacramento City Unified School District in 2019. During school, she was a student leader in the "Be Here, Every Day Counts" campaign to reduce chronic absenteeism.
Publications by Kiarah Young
Acknowledging the importance of students simply being in school, California has made student attendance part of its accountability system. This brief covers a session in which it was pointed out that using chronic absenteeism as an accountability…