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California study and state reports link community schools to lower chronic absence, fewer suspensions and modest test-score gains
Summary
A Learning Policy Institute matched study of early grantees and state implementation reports presented at a California State Assembly hearing found community schools reduced chronic absence and one-day suspensions and produced modest academic gains, with larger effects for historically underserved students; witnesses urged sustained funding and a June outcome study to probe mechanisms.
The California Community Schools Partnership Program has been associated with substantial reductions in chronic absenteeism, declines in one-day suspensions and modest gains on standardized tests among early grantees, presenters told a joint California State Assembly hearing on community schools.
"After a full year of implementing the grant program . . . community schools reduced chronic absence rates by about 30% more than the comparison schools," Anna Mayer of the Learning Policy Institute said in testimony summarizing a matched comparison study of the program’s first cohort. Mayer also reported that community schools decreased one-day suspension rates by about 15% on average and produced learning gains roughly equivalent to a quarter of a grade level in math and one-fifth of a grade level in English language arts.
Ingrid Burberson, chief…
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