SCUSD Board Proclaims September as ATTENDANCE AWARENESS MONTH
On Thursday, September 6, 2018 SCUSD passed resolution no. 3030 to recognize September as Attendance Awareness Month District-wide.
Chronic Absence in the Sacramento City Unified School District
Chronic school absence is associated with a number of poor outcomes for students, schools and communities. Since 2012, CRC-affiliated faculty member Nancy Erbstein and CRC staff (currently Cassie Hartzog) have worked with the Sacramento City Unified School District...
Sacramento County students are among the most absent in California
Sacramento County students have the worst chronic absentee rate in the region and a higher rate than all but two of the other 20 largest counties in California – Sonoma and San Joaquin. According to new state data, 14.8 percent of Sacramento County students missed...
Students Missing Class Is A Red Alert — But Researchers Say They Have A New Tool To Address The School-Absence Problem
Educators consider chronic absenteeism a red alert — a blaring sign that a student might be academically at risk. But schools and parents now have a new tool to investigate the problem, in the form of open-source data collected by UC Davis and research partners...
Seize the Data Opportunity in California: Using Chronic Absence to Improve Educational Outcomes
The California Department of Education (CDE) released statewide chronic absence data in December 2017 via DataQuest, an interactive data portal. To better understand chronic absence at the school level, Attendance Works collaborated with the Center for Regional Change...