Sac City Unified struggles to contact hundreds of students since stay-at-home order
As the Sacramento City Unified School District is working to make sure students are learning, there are 600 students who they haven’t been able to reach since the day the schools closed more than two months ago.
There are 47,900 students in the district. When some sites closed, the district reached out to families to find out if they need resources, from food to laptops.
Two weeks ago, there were 1,600 children who they had not been able to reach.
Teachers and others tracked down about a thousand of them, but on Friday, Superintendent Jorge Aguilar said there are still 600 students they haven’t heard from in two months.
“We had people calling and checking in and making sure that we were capitalizing on relationships, teachers who have stronger relationships with our students in some cases, you know, for our population of vulnerable students, in Sacramento, schools are a safe haven for them,” Aguilar said.
There are two groups in particular that have been harder to reach. Homeless students are six times more likely not to be reachable, and Laotian students are three times more likely to fall into that group.
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