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Bibb County presents attendance and discipline trends; launches interventions including breakthrough teams and task force referrals
Summary
The district reported a 92% average daily attendance trend, chronic absenteeism at 23.9% after the first semester, and declines in several discipline measures; staff described interventions including breakthrough teams, an evidence-based prevention program and a truancy task force that has opened 47 cases this year.
Jamie Cassidy, director in the Office of Student Affairs, presented the district’s first-semester attendance and discipline data and described current interventions.
Cassidy summarized three attendance metrics used by the district: ADA (average daily attendance), truancy rate (students with 10 or more unexcused days) and chronic absenteeism (students missing 10% or more of days). He said the district’s ADA averaged about 92% this fall, and the chronic absenteeism rate was 23.9% after the first semester. Cassidy described a district target — “50 and 5” — to reduce chronic absenteeism by 50% over five years.
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