School Attendance

Chronic Absenteeism Hurts Millions Of Students

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 05.17.2012

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Danet Robaina-Cline, an attendance counselor at Chaparral High, considers her school lucky. Like other schools in Las Vegas, a city reeling from th...

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Alabama Siblings Have Perfect K-12 School Attendance

AP | BOB JOHNSON | Posted 05.15.2012

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Neither bad weather nor car accident nor even feeling bad could stop Gennesaret Sealy from attending school every single day,...

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Rescuing the Kid in the Closet: Taking the Emotional Health of Kids Seriously

Rev. Romal J. Tune | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: School Attendance, At-Risk Youth, Education, Poverty, Dropout Prevention, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotional Wellness, Education Reform, Parental Involvement, Education News

Too often, little is said about the emotional story of children in poor communities trying to make sense of life circumstances that even a balanced adult would find difficult to manage.

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Hawaiian Student Hasn't Missed A Day Of School In 13 Years!

Posted 05.02.2012

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Going to high school in a beautiful location might make it difficult to choose class and studying over a day at the beach. But one Hawaiian student wi...

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Michigan Needs Early Intervention to Reduce Violent Crime

Thomas Stallworth | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: School Attendance, Smart Justice Initiative, Lead Poisoning, Detroit Education, Substance Abuse, Detroit Public Schools, Rick Snyder, Detroit News

Gov. Snyder should be applauded for the crime response efforts in his "smart justice" initiative; however, it fails to commit enough resources toward referring troubled youth to preventive and therapeutic resources.

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Common-Sense Policies Will Transform the Lives of Our Youth

Robert Ross | Posted 05.02.2012

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Instead of harsh punitive approaches, we need common-sense school discipline policies that emphasize accountability and work to prevent classroom disruption in the first place.

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Raising the Dropout Age

John Bridgeland | Posted 03.28.2012

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There are no silver bullets to solve the dropout crisis and blunt instruments often go too far. But when President Obama in his State of the Union address urged states to raise the legal dropout age, we cheered.

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Audit Exposes School Principal Who Faked Attendance Records

Posted 11.28.2011

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The principal of a St. Louis, Mo. school inflated attendance records for three years to meet federal requirements and attain more funding, a state aud...

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Las Vegas High Schooler Wins Honda Fit For Good Grades

AP | Posted 08.10.2011

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LAS VEGAS — A Las Vegas high school senior has won a new car for having good grades and no unexcused absences. Clark County school officials sa...

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Little Things Can Fix a Big Problem on National Healthy Schools Day

Claire L. Barnett | Posted 06.11.2011

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Regular attendance is a key indicator of a child's success in school and asthma is the number one cause of absenteeism for American schoolchildren. It's time we cleaned up the air to improve education.

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Forget Snow Days: Ohio Kids Learn Online In Bad Weather

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — When bad weather hits this winter, students in a rural western Ohio school district will hit their home computers as part of an...

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Drinking Water Filthy But Big Money Goes To Build New Stadium

Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 05.25.2011

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Out of South Africa came the news that an expensive new soccer stadium had been built in a city where drinking water is often dirty and many people have neither electric lights nor toilets.

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School Attendance Records Inflated

Posted 05.25.2011

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Chicago Public Schools officials claimed record-high attendance for the first day of the school year, even with the school funding boycott led by the ...

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What Boycott? CPS Claims Record Attendance

Posted 05.25.2011

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Chicago Public Schools officials claimed first-day attendance was record high, despite the two day boycott led by the rev. and state Sen. James Meeks....

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