Sentences with phrase «working on chronic absenteeism»
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One school may be doing fine on test scores but working to reduce chronic absenteeism, while another may be working with a network of schools on improving supports for English language learners.
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The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires states to report data on chronic absenteeism, but there is still much work to be done at the school and district level to ensure the quality and consistency of such data.
Resources for schools and communities • NJDOE guidance on reporting and calculating chronic absenteeism • Toolkits from Attendance Works, a national organization committed to improving student attendance • Video on Hedgepeth - Williams Middle School in Trenton dramatic reduction of its chronic absenteeism rate
Two of the nation's premiere experts on absenteeism — Johns Hopkins researcher Bob Balfanz and Attendance Works Director Hedy Chang — discussed the causes of and solutions to chronic absence.
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.
It will discuss absenteeism including health - related absences as a barrier to learning, share information and examples on data collection and use in identifying and tracking students with chronic conditions and demonstrating reduced absences through efforts that improve student health, and offer guidance to begin work in this area.
In addition to adding chronic absenteeism data to their ESSA plans, the state is going above and beyond the law by getting creative, working collaboratively (including through community outreach), training staff on recognizing chronic absenteeism, and thinking about possible solutions to reduce it.
The report draws on the analysis by Attendance Works and the Everyone Graduates Center of the number of schools in the U.S. that have extreme and high levels of chronic absenteeism.