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Prince George's County work group issues 32 recommendations to address truancy and chronic absenteeism
Summary
A county work group presented 32 recommendations across education, mental health, interventions and family engagement to address chronic absenteeism and habitual truancy in Prince George's County Public Schools; an interagency implementation group is already meeting.
The Prince George's County Council on Oct. 14 received the final report from a county truancy study work group that recommends 32 actions—spanning educational supports, mental-health interventions, incentives and family engagement—to reduce chronic absenteeism and habitual truancy in the county's public schools.
The recommendations matter because chronic absenteeism and truancy harm learning and long-term outcomes for students. Adrian Albert, director of the county's Education and Workforce Development Committee, told the council the work group identified both immediate and longer-term steps and that the county executive's team had already stood up an interagency implementation group that met Sept. 30.
The report defines habitual truancy as 20% or more unexcused absences and chronic absenteeism as 10% or more absences including excused reasons. "This includes both…
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