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- Hanna is here
- Hanna is here
- GOP Convention Delay Is Being Considered
- Will GOP Convention Go On As Scheduled?
- Long Lines Waiting To Get Into Invesco Field
- Two More Floridians On Podium Tonight, Including Final Benediction
- Business Licenses, August 11–15, 2008
- Business Licenses, August 4–8, 2008
- You Don’t See This Often (Thankfully)
- Business Licenses, July 28 – August 1, 2008
- Business Licenses, July 21-25, 2008
- Still No Floor Credentials, But Did See J-Lo
- Wednesday Was Historic
- We’ve Got Our Tropical Conga Line
- Breakfast Speaker Foulup Nixes McCaskill
Hillsborough County School District issued a media release just after 3 p.m. with attendance results. Overall, 23,518 students were absent, compared to 14,985 the previous Monday. Overall, that’s an 87 percent attendance rate compared to 92 percent April 24.
However, individual schools saw varying attendance. Plant High in south tampa saw 92 percent attendance today. Plant City High, in an immigrant-heavy area, saw 78 percent attendance.
The district even broke down attendance by ethnicity for some schools: “At East Bay High School on Monday 56 percent of the Hispanic students attended school. The previous week, 84 percent of the Hispanic students at East Bay High were in attendance. At Plant City High School, 41 percent of Hispanic students were in attendance on Monday, compared to 91 percent the previous week,” the release read.—Heidi Hall
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Posted by Joe Jansen, Tampa on 05/01 at 06:33 PM
Good. For one day at least in our grade-schools, the children who don’t speak English won’t hold back the children that do.