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District attendance advocates call chronic absenteeism a multisystem issue; outline local strategies
Summary
Attendance advocates described definitions (average daily attendance, truancy, chronic absenteeism), presented first-semester chronic-absenteeism data by school and proposed building-level systems and targeted outreach to improve attendance.
An attendance-advocates presentation to the Coos Bay School District 9 board laid out the district’s framing of attendance problems, school-by-school chronic-absence statistics and steps the district is taking to reduce missed days.
The presenter (the district’s attendance advocate team lead) opened by clarifying common attendance metrics: average daily attendance (a school-level daily measure), truancy (historically unexcused absence-based and compliance-focused) and chronic absenteeism (students missing 10% or more of the school year). The team explained thresholds: missing 10% of a school year (roughly 17–18 days on…
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