On a bright Wednesday morning, administrators, counselors and school social workers decked out in Cardinals gear huddle around a conference table at Shaw High School.
Laptops are out and the room is mostly quiet as Erin Drakeley, the school social worker, speaks with a parent on speakerphone.
“She’s already missed, like, almost the whole month of September,” Drakeley says gently to start the conversation with a mom about her daughter’s attendance…