White House urges schools to address absenteeism amid troubling data

“Ninety percent of students showed up to school on a typical day this fall, according to a new federal survey, a figure that experts say remains too low amid national concern around a rise in chronic absenteeism.” “. . ..But when average daily attendance rates fall to 90 percent, chronic absenteeism rates tend to spike to 20 percent or more — a troubling figure.”

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