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District data show chronic absenteeism linked to lower SOL pass rates in some subjects

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Pulaski County staff presented data showing chronically absent students generally perform worse than non-chronically absent peers on Standards of Learning tests in several subjects, with wide variation across grades and subjects.

Pulaski County Public Schools staff presented an analysis of chronic absenteeism and Standards of Learning (SOL) outcomes, reporting that students classified as chronically absent passed roughly half of the SOL subjects examined overall but that results varied substantially by grade and subject.

The district said chronically absent students passed 50% of the tested subjects overall; by level…

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