The 246 suspect schools, which come from 83 districts, make up about 2.4 percent of the just over 10,000 schools that
submitted attendance data.
Not exact matches
Since the mid-1990s, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) has required all districts to
submit data that include demographic information,
attendance rates, and behavioral outcomes, yearly test scores in math and reading for grades 3 through 8, and subject - specific tests for higher grades.
Providers also track
attendance for the afterschool program and
submit this
data, along with the school district information, to an evaluator.
Districts would have to collect,
submit and publish
data on a variety of indicators of success such as graduation and dropout rates, expulsions and suspensions,
attendance, and surveys of student and community perceptions of their schools.
That's why the California Department of Education sent letters to nearly 250 schools last month — including more than half of the schools in San Francisco Unified — asking them to re-check their
attendance records after they
submitted data to the state showing every one of their students had perfect
attendance during the 2016 - 17 school year.