Pacesetter Stockton CA r3 - The Campaign for Grade

Stockton-San Joaquin County
2014 PACESETTER
The Campaign for
GRADE-LEVEL
READING
The Stockton-San Joaquin County, California, Grade-Level Reading
Campaign is recognized as a 2014 Pacesetter for making measurable
progress on student attendance outcomes.
San Joaquin County saw a reduction in truancy (chronic absenteeism) from 30 percent
to 25 percent overall, and more than 20,000 kids achieved perfect attendance during the
month of September 2014.
Launching the Every Day Counts Attendance Challenge has been a significant accomplishment that encourages students to come to school on time every day. During the month of
September students who achieve perfect attendance are entered into a drawing for prizes
including bikes and Amazon Kindles. The Attendance Challenge involves partnership and
support from local businesses. In 2014, 60 local schools participated.
The Stockton-San Joaquin County GLR Campaign serves an area
that includes approximately 50,000 PK–3 students, approximately
“We are proud to have made early
literacy an important part of the
33,000 of whom come from low-income families. In partnership
civic conversation in Stockton-
with the Stockton Unified School District, the Campaign regularly
San Joaquin County, and we’re
tracks the percent of K–3 students from low-income families who
encouraged by the progress we’ve
are chronically absent as a key measure of its overall impact on
student outcomes. Reflecting on the community’s progress since
it joined the Campaign in 2012, local GLR Lead Jennifer Torres
Siders commented, “We are proud to have made early literacy an
important part of the civic conversation in Stockton-San Joaquin
County, and we’re encouraged by the progress we’ve seen so far,
seen so far, especially around
attendance. We know our goals
are ambitious, but we believe we
are on the path toward achieving
them.”
Jennifer Torres Siders, local GLR Lead
especially around attendance. We know our goals are ambitious,
The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading proudly recognizes the shared ownership for the
progress in Stockton among the following members of the local sponsoring coalition:
• University of the Pacific
• San Joaquin A+
• San Joaquin County Office of Education
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but we believe we are on the path toward achieving them.”
STOCKTON-SAN
JOAQUIN COUNTY
• Stockton Unified School District
• Health Plan of San Joaquin
• First 5 San Joaquin
• Stockton Symphony
• Stockton-San Joaquin County Public
• Diocese of Stockton
Library
• Lakeview Assembly Church
• Community Partnership for Families of
• San Joaquin County Supervisor Kathy
San Joaquin
Miller
• United Way of San Joaquin County, Inc.
• El Concilio
• San Joaquin County Judge Jose Alva
• Sheriff Steve Moore
• Comcast
• St. Joseph’s Medical Center/Dignity
• Office of Assemblywoman Susan
Health
Eggman
• Visionary Home Builders
• San Joaquin County Hispanic Chamber
• Lodi Unified School District
of Commerce
• Community Foundation of San Joaquin
• Cort. Cos
• Stockton Chamber of Commerce
• Central United Methodist Church
• Family Resource and Referral Center of
• The Record Newspaper
San Joaquin
• Lincoln Unified School District
• San Joaquin Library & Literacy
• Children Now
Foundation
• AT&T
• SASS! Public Relations
• Bank of Stockton
• Reach Out and Read San Joaquin
• San Joaquin RTD
• Stockton City Council members Michael
Tubbs and Moses Zapien
• PG&E
• San Joaquin Delta College
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• Housing Authority of San Joaquin
• YMCA of San Joaquin County
MAR 2015