Sentences with phrase «focus on chronic absenteeism»

Hayward is considered ahead of most school districts because it is collecting data so it can focus on chronic absenteeism.

In fact, AIDP - funded community schools, including Media and Communcations, will include a specific focus on chronic absenteeism and drop - out prevention.

Many states are focusing on chronic absenteeism as one of the indicators of school improvement under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

Not exact matches

Balfanz notes that in some schools, principals are able to recruit mentors from the community and draw on existing staff (including cafeteria workers and security guards) to ensure that every student at risk of chronic absenteeism can build a relationship with an adult who is focused on that student's attendance.

In some schools, principals are able to recruit mentors from the community and draw on existing staff (including cafeteria workers and security guards) to ensure that every student at risk of chronic absenteeism can build a relationship with an adult who is focused on that student's attendance.

ACNJ has kept up the drumbeat on chronic absenteeism with multiple reports, forums, focus groups and professional development for school staff and community programs.

Chronic absenteeism in LA Unified increased by 1 percent last year, despite a focus on improving attendance.

Your 2011 article inspired me to get involved in chronic absenteeism research, and most importantly, encouraged me to focus on solutions to addressing the «problem hidden in plain sight.»

The Department of Education established a point person to focus entirely on chronic absenteeism.

The Coalition focused its policy papers on four areas: education funding campaign lessons, school finance reform, using measures beyond testing to evaluate schools, and reducing chronic absenteeism.

Districts focusing on reasons for chronic absenteeism, such as illness, suspensions, transportation and family disruptions.

But only 17 states track and report chronic absenteeism data, according to the Data Quality Campaign and Attendance Works, a non-profit organization that advocates for more focus on absenteeism data and ideas for getting students to come to school.

Schools throughout Utah are putting an extra focus on decreasing chronic absenteeism as part of September being School Attendance Awareness Month.

According to Roughton, the district's focus on chronic absence was prompted by a New York Times article on the impact of chronic absenteeism on student outcomes.1 The article made clear that all absences, not just unexcused absences, can negatively impact reading rates and can increase dropout rates for students.

For those who have pushed educators to focus more attention on chronic absenteeism, it's cause for celebration.

Tracking chronic absenteeism shifts the focus, enabling schools and districts to drill down on the reasons for all absences and address the needs of individual

This should include a focus on nonacademic indicators including, for example, data on disciplinary actions (including suspensions and expulsions) and chronic absenteeism.

Schools would perform well on this measure if they reduce rates of chronic absenteeism, and states could focus their attention on schools not reducing these rates.

America's Promise Alliance suggests that the gaps can be breached if officials make a concerted effort in several areas, particularly focusing on reducing chronic absenteeism and providing the best possible experience during the pivotal middle grades.

The speakers focused on steps they have already taken to reduce absenteeism including making chronic absence data publicly available, encouraging a shift in how absenteeism is tracked and monitored from a compliance framework to one that recognizes that absenteeism is lost ininstructional time.

Focusing on the parents is the wrong approach, the report concluded, because abuse and parental neglect are rarely the causes of chronic absenteeism, which is more often tied to negatives at school itself.