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East Ramapo presents rising chronic absenteeism; district outlines tiered interventions
Summary
District officials reported average daily attendance around 90% but a chronic absenteeism rate rising to about 31.7% by November; staff proposed tiered interventions, school attendance teams, and hiring attendance coordinators/monitors.
District staff presented a month-to-month attendance analysis and a proposal to reduce chronic absenteeism across East Ramapo schools.
Mr. Gandhi (district attendance lead) told trustees that as of Sept. 30 the district enrollment was 9,722, average daily attendance was 90.56%, and that the September chronic-absence figure was 29.36%. By Oct. 31 the chronic absenteeism rate had increased (to…
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