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Newby Elementary students, staff highlight attendance 'buddies' and bus service in board presentation
Summary
Principal Vicky Brown and Newby Elementary students presented the school's attendance initiative to the McMinnville School Board, describing attendance incentives, an added bus route across Second Street and an 'attendance buddies' program that staff say increased attendance roughly 2% over three weeks.
McMinnville — Principal Vicky Brown and students from Newby Elementary presented the school’s attendance efforts to the McMinnville School District board on April 14, highlighting incentives, a newly added bus route and a classroom-based mentoring program called "attendance buddies."
Brown told the board the school documented chronic absence as a concern and focused on positive incentives: donuts at…
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