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A school can report a 90 percent average daily attendance rate and have 40 percent of students chronically absent, because on different days different students make up the 90 percent. Schools know that students are missing but don’t look at the data by student to show individual absenteeism rates. [5] Key findings include:
Truancy is any intentional, unjustified, unauthorized, or illegal absence from compulsory education. It is a deliberate absence by a student's own free will and usually does not refer to legitimate excused absences, such as ones related to medical conditions. Truancy is usually explicitly defined in the school's handbook of policies and procedures.
School refusal is a child-motivated refusal to attend school or difficulty remaining in class for the full day. [1] Child-motivated absenteeism occurs autonomously, by the volition of the child. This behavior is differentiated from non-child-motivated absences in which parents withdraw children from school or are unable to bring their children ...
The Cape Breton-Victoria Regional Centre for Education (formerly the Cape Breton-Victoria School Board) [1] is the public school district that provides educational services for approximately 13,000 students as of 2015-16 [2] in more than 56 elementary, junior high, and high schools, as well as 185 adult learners in four adult education centres.
As of the 2020–21 school year, the district, comprising two schools, had an enrollment of 593 students and 57.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.4:1. [1] The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "FG", the fourth-highest of eight groupings.
The district also had a stunning lack of mechanics to repair buses, frequently absent bus drivers and no spare buses if a bus went offline. All these factors led to frequent delays when picking up ...
The school is located in the Hutchinson section of South Union Township. R.W. Clark Elementary - located near the High School, the school was built in 1962 and renovated in 2000. It is named after a former Laurel Highlands school principal. [5] George C. Marshall Elementary - was constructed in 1966 and renovated in 1992. A four classroom ...
Board of Education of Weedsport Central School District, holding the school was within its rights in suspending for a semester a middle school student who used as an online avatar an image suggesting he intended to shoot and kill one of his teachers, due to the threat of violence involved and the likelihood that threat would eventually reach ...