Districts New "Truancy Policy" Leads To Record Collections For FBISD!

A QUESTION THAT CRITICS OF THE CURRENT FBISD BUDGET DEFICIT RAISED DURING THE NEW TRUANCY POLICY INITIATIVE EARLIER THIS YEAR ASKED WAS THIS BEING USED TO GENERATE ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR FBISD'S FIRST EVER BUDGET DEFICIT.

Check out this FBN article on how it works:

A Tougher Fort Bend ISD Truancy Policy Bears Fruit, But Not All Of It As Expected
Bob Dunn, FBN

The [new] get-tough policy against truancy that Fort Bend Independent School District announced last summer has borne fruit:

...And as more parents have been hauled before county justices of the peace, so have more parents shown up at recent school board meetings to assail the district Board of Trustees over what they see as an inflexible and unfair truancy policy.

“They have 68,000-plus students, and they have sent 8.4% of the entire student body to court” in the first semester of the 2008-09 year, one parent said, adding that the district created an automated system for handling truancy cases “and then probably realized, ‘whoo-hoo, we’re sitting on a gold mine.’

--Follow the title link for more above and how the district is "cashing in" to overcome a special interest initiated record bond debt that so negatively impacted our district school budgets...