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The Yonkers school district has established "attendance teams," partnered with mental health professionals, set up mentoring for students and taken other steps to reduce absenteeism.
Increasing engagement means lowering absenteeism and dropout rates, with the board making it a “wildly important goal” to “reduce K-12 student chronic absenteeism by more than 50% from its ...
Chronic absenteeism, where a student misses 10 or more school days, has nearly doubled since 2014. Here's how schools are fighting it. Chronic absenteeism, where a student misses 10 or more school ...
The program addresses students with high absenteeism rates with consistently absent students by providing access to therapy, health services, and resources such as bus passes. [16] The county reports that the program has been "more than 90% successful at getting students back in class", thereby decreasing absenteeism rates. [16]
The assessment aims to (1) confirm that the behavior represents school refusal as opposed to truancy or legitimate absence, (2) evaluate the extent and severity of absenteeism, (3) the type(s) and severity of emotional distress, (4) obtain information regarding the child, family, school, and community factors that may be contributing to the ...
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Student engagement is a vital construct to be used in prevention and intervention efforts that target issues related to dropout prevention, bullying, and the behaviors associated with the disengagement of students to school (academic failure, chronic absenteeism, behavioral issues). [103]
Gomes said the school committee and district are working on ways to reduce student and teacher absenteeism and connecting with parents to make sure they have the support they need, but he said he ...