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"They've invested quite a few dollars into helping mitigate the issues that keep students from being able to be at their best and successful in their academics," a California school district's coordinator of counseling programs tells KION.
That's why the Pajaro Valley Unified School District is getting a $33 million grant from the state to help more of its students return to school.
The grant will go to 24 of the district's schools to provide social and mental health services to students who are at risk of dropping out, the San Jose Mercury News reports.
"To qualify for the grant, your schools need to have a certain percentage of students that are meeting some of these mitigating factors," Chrissy Maclean says.
"We know those families need a lot more support to figuring out what those are so that we can provide for them and get those students to school."
According to the Mercury News, one student in Eureka city schools went from 40 absences to just one in a roughly 60-day period, and another child went from 26 to one.
The grant is part of the state's "community schools" initiative, which includes universal free school meals, transitional kindergarten, before-and-after school learning investments, teacher training, and recruitment and student retention, KION reports
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