Attendance

An estimated 7.5 million students are chronically absent each school year, and high rates of truancy start as early as kindergarten.  Every teacher knows that you can't teach empty seats.

(Pennsylvania Dept. of Education...www.education.pa.gov)

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Students with more than 20 absences per year have less than a 20% chance of graduating.

(Attendance Works… www.attendanceworks.org)

 

By 9th grade, attendance is a better predictor of graduation than the previous year’s test scores.

(Attendance Works… www.attendanceworks.org)

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