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Bellevue board hears attendance report; officials target chronic absenteeism reductions and expanded outreach
Summary
District staff reported on chronic absenteeism — defined as missing 10% or more of school days — and proposed MTSS-based interventions, earlier outreach, multilingual communications and technology tools to reduce absenteeism from roughly 25% toward 20% and beyond.
The Bellevue School District Board of Directors received a department report June 26 on attendance and chronic absenteeism, including district targets and next steps to reduce prolonged student absences.
Glenn Haslinger, the district’s director of student engagement, told the board that national practice defines chronic absenteeism as missing 10% or more of the school year and that Bellevue’s current chronic-absence rate was about a quarter of students. “What we’re looking at here, obviously, is trying to reduce that from current 25 percent down to 20 percent,” Haslinger said, and he added a “stretch goal” of cutting chronic absenteeism in half.
Haslinger described four common root‑cause categories…
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