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Birmingham Community Charter leaders outline attendance crackdown, aim for 96% daily attendance
Summary
School leaders described a multi-tiered attendance strategy that opened a school-based attendance review team (SART/SAR), stepped truancy letters, home visits and incentive programs; presenters said the school’s chronic absenteeism rate has fallen but remains above pre-COVID levels.
Birmingham Community Charter High District officials told the board they have launched a stepped attendance program combining early outreach, truancy letters and individualized plans to reduce chronic absenteeism and raise average daily attendance toward a 96% goal.
School staff presented metrics and procedures at the board meeting to explain how the mid‑year attendance work is being implemented and why administrators say the approach should improve outcomes over time. "We started a school attendance review team," said Ned (staff member), summarizing steps that include weekly monitoring, calls to families and escalation to formal truancy letters.
The district described the effort as a multistep process: automatic notifications through Aeries and ParentSquare for absences; phone outreach for students absent two or more times in a week;…
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