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In the past five years, the dropout rate has been reduced by 7% in Cartagena, as explained by the Councillor for Education, on the occasion of the establishment of the Local Board made up 17 Truancy technical

First thing in the morning has become the Palace Hall Local Board Truancy, composed of 17 technicians of different administrations to analyze and provide activities and coordinate efforts.

The mayor of the city, Pilar Barreiro, presided this table that also has laid the CEO of Educational Planning and Carlos Romero, along with leaders of Social and Education Area, as well as Health Service , Office of Cartagena, local police, and principals and teachers from public and subsidized c olegios primary and secondary education.

In a previous encounter with the media, the Councillor for Education, Joseph Marotta, said that truancy is down 7% in the last five years, when the level of absenteeism reached 20%. Has also said that since the beginning of this school year have been evaluated in about 600 cases, having solved a total of 113 in the city.

Furthermore, in Cartagena and in collaboration with the Office, have executed six sentences show that dropout children may be a crime, in the words of the mayor of Education.

Among the causes, noted Maroto

the fact that children have to take care of his siblings so that their parents can go to work, or those households where education takes a back seat to the parents, while if we look at the age,

secondary education is the most difficult to control.

This table depends on the Regional Prevention and Control Monitoring and Reducing Truancy School dropout, or what is the same, the RESP program, in accordance with the order of October 26, 2012 of the Ministry of Education Region of Murcia.

The technical work of this group will be to adapt the protocol of the Department of Education to the order that will be mandatory for schools, which means that teachers must pass list or notify absences, among other measures.

Also according Maroto is docking Plummer the software in order to record the non-attendance of school.

The way to act on truancy will be linked to the percentage of absences in the words of the councilor, who explained that according to the existing protocol operation begins on the teacher Cartagena, which is followed by the teacher Tutor; and third phase Headquarters Service and Management Studies.

If the problem persists, the case is elevated to the City of Cartagena, to the Ministry of Education, and ultimately the prosecution.

The next step of this Truancy Local Board, which has now been constuida, will set a work schedule to upcoming meetings.

Also, technicians can raise their own amendments to the current protocol of the Department of Education in order to eliminate or at least reduce the dropout rate in Cartagena.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena