Well, they give advice to the Superintendent and other district leaders on policies, problems, and possible solutions.

The Superintendent's Student Advisory Council is made up of high school students from across the Clark County School District.

They meet once a month, and their input is invaluable.

(Jesus Jara) You guys are my customers, right?

We work for you.

(Isabella Cordoba) So the Student Advisory Council, we assist the Superintendent with, like, kind of understanding who students are and what our perspectives are on school policies.

-The Council is a way for students like me to help share the viewpoints and opinions of our peers to members of our district so they can help fix problems that students like me may see at our schools.

(Alexis Morada) Something that we all shared in common was chronic absenteeism.

And essentially, we are trying to figure out what is causing that problem.

How can we make change in order to help solve that problem in a way?

(Econia Mandefero) And we figured that there wasn't just one reason.

Obviously, things like mental health go into it.

- I want your input.

Because I wanted to empower them to say, Well, what's in the school system?

You've been here 11 years, 12 years.

Tell me what needs to change, right?

Coming out of COVID, to me, was really important to hear their voice.

And we've empowered them to come in and say, What problem are we going to fix?

And get their voice to then help me address the challenge.

-I definitely think it's important for us to have a voice just because it's hard for like adults, I guess, to understand what we go through.

Although they were us at one point, it's just that we go through things that are hard to kind of understand as like the times change.

So when they, when a policy is implemented or something new happens in the district, they don't understand fully how that has impacted us.

-CCSD is doing a better job of having, like, resources and wraparound services that we can use, but not enough students know about them.

So what we do is come together, discuss, then try to take ideas to our schools so that we can share what we learn here and talk about things that other students might not know.

-It's a huge privilege.

And it's an honor to be able to be a part of, like, this council and just take back all this information and be able to be a voice for my peers.

-He listens to us tell him what we think should be changed around the district.

-I think it's really important for students to voice their opinion and also, like, empower student voice in general.

-I'm excited that they're feeling empowered, because that was my goal.

-Members of this year's Superintendent's Student Advisory Council will share some of their feedback about chronic absenteeism with trustees at an upcoming school board meeting.