1,143,668 California students were chronically absent in 2024-25.
My bet: by 2030 every school sees its list in October.
Not in a report the next school year.
That's not a staffing problem. It's a data and workflow problem.
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"I'm 70 years old."
A school leader said that at our district launch today. The training was rough until we stopped demoing features and started asking about her day.
Then we cut whole steps out of her day.
"All I have to do is press a button?"
Tech earns trust when you understand someone's day.
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My AI knew the internet. It didn't know my company. So I built a context layer over my own notes. The move isn't a bigger model. It's the context. Make your AI say which source it trusts, and when it isn't sure.
Most people think attendance recovery fails in the board packet. That’s not the full story…it fails at 400p
Four manual program moves per kid in pickup rush → clerks protect the door and leave recovery empty.
Tip: cut the transfer-of-care tax, don’t add another report.
Small districts get ghosted. Ticket queues. Min seats. “We’ll get back to you.” They don’t.
A CA superintendent’s vendor test: give them your cell. If they don’t call, they don’t care.
CA districts do whatever it takes for the kids.
They deserve a human, not a portal.
California afterschool is one stack of Ed Code.
Recovering the absence is another.
Districts run both on the same kid. The audit guides do not talk to each other.
It’s far more complicated than you think —
ASES wants 15 hours a week, doors open until 6 p.m., attendance scored January through December. Hit 75 percent of target every calendar year and 85 percent across two, or the grant steps down. Instructional aides can staff it.
ELO-P wants a nine-hour combined day and 30 nonschool days at nine hours. Ratios are 1:20 (1:10 if a TK or kindergartener is in the room).
About $5 BILLION, paid on unduplicated counts, not on who showed up. You can braid it with ASES.
That’s just running programs with two grant funds.
Then there’s getting the ADA back.
Saturday school: certificated teacher, a full minimum day, a course you also teach Monday through Friday. Charters cannot claim it. You cannot make up a suspension.
Short-term independent study: up to 15 days, a written agreement, a credentialed teacher judging the time value of the work. Not an after-hours program. Different binder, different audit.
Attendance recovery (new last year): 10 days per student, in person, certificated employee of the LEA. Only a teacher with a credentials count. Time accrues in whole hours and rounds down. Teacher attestation needed. You can spend ELO-P money on it if ELO-P and AR run concurrently, at the same site, operated by the district. Separate annual audit.
One absence can only be offset once.
Recover it on Saturday and it is dead for AR and independent study.
Five statutes, five staffing rules, five clocks. Most of it still lives in a spreadsheet between 3 and 6 p.m.
This is why I wrote a couple books on this stuff!
If an ASES site serves 90 kids on Monday, Tuesday’s job is not “get back to 110.”
It is whatever is left of the year’s student-days, divided by the days you still have.
110 was never the quota. It was yesterday’s average.
Most districts still run this on a sheet.
Yesterday’s headcount gets typed, copied, pasted into the file that is supposed to run the grant.The grant did not ask for yesterday’s number.
It asked whether October just made April harder.