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District introduces AI texting tool EDIA to boost family outreach and fight chronic absenteeism
Summary
Central Consolidated Schools staff described a new AI-powered attendance outreach tool, EDIA, and a March attendance challenge intended to increase family engagement and reduce chronic absenteeism. The board pressed for clarity on funding, chronic-absence drivers at specific high schools and how health guidance will be distributed.
Tia, the district's attendance presenter, told the Central Consolidated Schools board the district has started using EDIA, an AI-driven two-way texting platform, to make it easier for families to report absences and to improve outreach.
"We've now received lots of parents texting back and really engaging with our platform so that it's more convenient for them to state why their students [are] absent," Tia said, summarizing the pilot experience and describing color-coded absence reasons—health, family obligations, transportation, mental health, vacation/travel, discipline or suspension, and other.
The district said EDIA is…
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