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District 204 attendance update: report card chronic-absenteeism stalled; principals outline targeted interventions
Summary
District officials told the board chronic absenteeism by state report card metrics remained flat for Central and rose slightly at West; the district plans targeted administrator caseloads, tardy sweeps and new advocate programs to reduce absences.
JOLIET, Ill. ' Joliet Township High School District 204 officials on Monday reported that chronic absenteeism measured on the state report card did not show the internal gains the district expected and described a slate of targeted interventions for the new school year.
District staff defined chronic absenteeism as missing 10 percent or more of school days and said the Illinois report-card figure for Joliet Central High School remained at 57.3 percent year over year; Joliet West showed a very slight increase, the presenters said. Internal, school-level data had shown reductions at serving-school populations, but the state…
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