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Mel Atkins says Attendance Works partnership cut chronic absenteeism by 9 percentage points in participating GRPS schools
Summary
At a Grand Rapids Public Schools finance committee meeting, Mel Atkins reported that a multi-year Attendance Works partnership produced a 9 percentage-point reduction in chronic absenteeism among 12–13 participating schools and proposed shifting to a coaching model to scale the work districtwide.
Mel Atkins, a staff member with Grand Rapids Public Schools, told the finance committee that the district's work with Attendance Works has produced measurable improvements in a subset of schools and that the district plans to shift the program toward capacity-building so schools can sustain the work.
Atkins said, “it was 42.1 percent of our of our scholars were chronically absent,” describing the districtwide chronic absenteeism rate for the 2023-24 school…
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