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Blanco, Megan; Mays, Alex; Chang, Hedy N.; Fothergill, Sue – National Association of State Boards of Education, 2019
During the 2015-16 school year, about one in seven students was chronically absent, missing at least 10 percent of school days. An early warning sign of academic risk and school dropout, chronic absence predicts school failure more reliably than test scores. To understand the drivers of chronic absence, state boards of education should examine…
Descriptors: Attendance, Child Health, State Boards of Education, Agency Role