Sentences with phrase «with high absenteeism»

Recently, a landmark school attendance bill unanimously passed both houses of the New Jersey legislature requiring that schools keep track of chronically absent students and that schools with high absenteeism develop plans to improve attendance.

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The CCOHS publishes guidelines on workplace bullying, and Chappel says the most common signs of a bullied workforce are an office riven with gossip, innuendoes and backbiting, and high levels of absenteeism and turnover.

API: Looking at your website, we can see that higher ACE scores are associated with adult alcoholism, chronic depression, perpetrating domestic violence, smoking, being raped, suicide attempts, teen sex and pregnancy, employee absenteeism and job performance.

The authors dwell on current building concerns such as «sick building syndrome» (buildings associated with higher than normal absenteeism and sickness rates, complaints about air quality, headaches, eye problems, dry mouth and blocked nose), legionnaires» disease and radon.

The higher cure rate and lessened side - effects of treating patients with an all - oral combination of ledipasvir and sofosbuvir (LDV / SOF) results in greatly reduced absenteeism and improved workplace productivity that can translate into enormous benefit, according to the new economic model used by researchers at Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, VA..

Students can demonstrate this lack of engagement by withholding effort and by «voting with their feet» through rising chronic absenteeism as they get older (PDF, 1.4 MB), and chronic absenteeism is among the highest predictors of dropping out of school.

Head teachers should monitor factors that might suggest there is a problem with stress ‑ related illness, for example, high rates of absenteeism, staff turnover, poor performance, and conflict between staff.

The state also has made attendance a priority: In its plan to comply with a new federal education law, Washington will track schools with high rates of chronic absenteeism.

The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high school and high school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.

Indeed, if anything, absenteeism increases with salary (and it is higher in public schools than in private schools, despite lower wages in the latter).

Chronic absenteeism is particularly high for students in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten compared with students in other elementary grades and middle school — across the country and in the mid-Atlantic region.

The study found that the majority of students who eventually drop out of Baltimore high schools enter ninth grade with a pattern of chronic absenteeism that goes back at least several years.

Low performance on the Smarter Balanced standardized tests combined with high levels of chronic absenteeism and suspension rates were the most common factors that resulted in the low CORE scores.

He reminds us that «in the US, wealthy children attending public schools that serve the wealthy are competitive with any nation in the world... [but in]... schools in which low - income students do not achieve well, [that are not competitive with many nations in the world] we find the common correlates of poverty: low birth weight in the neighborhood, higher than average rates of teen and single parenthood, residential mobility, absenteeism, crime, and students in need of special education or English language instruction.»

State leaders want to include more meaningful measurements along with test scores such as absenteeism among kindergartners, how many high school freshmen pass enough classes to be on track to graduate, and the share of high school graduates who go on to college.

It has long been understood that students with high rates of absenteeism are less likely to graduate than their peers, and are more likely to suffer academically.

Students with disabilities, migrant and English learners, and those from low - income households also had rates higher than average in the state, while Asian children had the lowest rate of chronic absenteeism at 10 percent.

The most recent 2016 report shows that chronic absence affects 7.3 % of California elementary school students, with disproportionately high rates of absenteeism and suspensions for youth of color, as well as low - income, homeless, foster and special education students.

Several school community collaborations were in schools with high levels of absenteeism.

Nauer found that schools with chronic absenteeism were likely to be beset by other poverty - related problems, such as male unemployment in the neighborhood and high rates of homelessness.

Newark's rates of chronic absenteeism for the 2015 - 16 school year show higher rates of absenteeism for high school students at 48 percent, with 38 percent of ninth graders and 59 percent of seniors chronically absent in Newark's district schools.

The majority of students who eventually drop out of high school enter 9th grade with a pattern of chronic absenteeism that goes back at least several years, the study shows.

Hear this interview with Chalkboard's Dan Jamison on the connection between high absenteeism in schools and low graduation rates.

Positive school climate, for example, correlates with decreased substance abuse, student absenteeism, and suspension rates, in addition to improved academic performance.57 Indeed, higher - performing schools have better organizational health.

First, the state will look at a school's relative performance with all students and in closing gaps for «high needs» students based on a number of factors including average scale scores, academic growth, chronic absenteeism, and success in grade 9 courses.

To support attendance, schools must first establish a positive and engaging school climate.87 To reduce chronic absenteeism, however, schools may need to implement more rigorous interventions.88 For example, schools can increase parent engagement to educate guardians on the risks associated with accumulated absences, which they often underestimate.89 Schools may also need to address systemic barriers to attendance by providing safe transportation or high - quality afterschool programs.90

Once we control statistically for the quality of individual teachers by the use of teacher fixed effects, we find large returns to experience for middle school teachers in the form both of higher test scores and improvements in student behavior, with the clearest behavioral effects emerging for reductions in student absenteeism.

As school districts around the country face crippling budget shortfalls, Detroit's schools have been hit especially hard with staggering debt, pink - slipped teachers, school closures, high absenteeism, low college readiness and an uncertain future.

An analysis of the state's own attendance data shows that absenteeism correlates with lower test scores and higher dropout rates.

One of the reasons for we successfully decreased chronic absenteeism at Travis Early College High School is the fact that relationships created with mentees were formed with mentors within the school.

A June 2014 report released by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) claimed that, «When teachers are absent 10 days, the decrease in student achievement is equivalent to the difference between having a brand new teacher and one with two or three years more experience... Worse yet, a number of studies have found there to be a disproportionately high rate of teacher absenteeism in schools serving low income and minority students, providing yet another obstacle to closing the achievement gap.»

While she was at the helm, suspensions in Focus schools measurably declined, and the number of schools with high chronic absenteeism rates dropped by more than 8 %.

The toll of chronic diseases on workplace productivity is high, with seven major diseases accounting for a substantial amount of «presenteeism» — that is, workers performing less due to the effects of sickness and absenteeism.

This study examined the impact of a four - month participation in the TM program on absenteeism, rule infractions, and suspension rates in adolescents with high normal BP.

Cranston Public Schools have been grappling with the problem of chronic absenteeism for years with absentee rates notably higher than the state average, but recently, there's been a renewed effort to address the problem.

But research generally finds health consequences for present - but - ill employees, with higher medical costs and greater reductions in productivity than absenteeism would cause.

A Society for Human Resource Management online article says presenteeism costs are «higher than the combined costs of medical care, prescription drugs and absenteeism,» with estimated annual costs of $ 150 billion to $ 250 billion a year.