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Canton Local works to lower chronic absenteeism after modest drop to 23.6%
Summary
District and building leaders said chronic absenteeism fell to 23.6% from 25.9% the prior year; they described building-level outreach, teacher 'adoptions' of chronically absent students, attendance incentives, and monitoring targets to reduce rates further.
District and building leaders described chronic absenteeism and related attendance work at the meeting, reporting a districtwide chronic-absentee rate of 23.6% and describing concrete building-level interventions.
The presenter said chronic absenteeism for the district has declined from 30.9% two years earlier to 25.9% last year and to 23.6% in the most recent reporting period. The district defined chronic absenteeism as students missing 10% or more of the…
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