{"id":219820,"date":"2024-08-19T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eschoolnews.com\/?p=219820"},"modified":"2024-08-02T07:54:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T12:54:36","slug":"bipartisan-coalition-cut-chronic-absenteeism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eschoolnews.com\/educational-leadership\/2024\/08\/19\/bipartisan-coalition-cut-chronic-absenteeism\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisan coalition issues call to cut chronic absenteeism in half as kids continue to miss school"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>This story was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/2024\/07\/18\/schools-should-cut-chronic-absenteeism-in-half-says-education-coalition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"canonical noopener\">originally published<\/a> by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at <a href=\"http:\/\/ckbe.at\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ckbe.at\/newsletters<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From poor reading skills to chaotic classrooms, the stubbornly high rate at which kids are absent from school makes it harder to solve every other problem in education. That\u2019s made improving attendance a rare point of bipartisan agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new coalition announced a campaign on Wednesday calling on schools to cut their chronic absenteeism rates in half from the 2021-22 school year, when rates peaked across the country, by the 2026-27 school year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal is to reverse what happened during the pandemic, when the share of kids who miss a lot of school nearly doubled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the new campaign, the coalition plans to highlight examples of states and school districts that have successfully tackled absenteeism challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While many schools have worked to curb chronic absenteeism \u2014 typically defined as when kids miss 10% or more of their school year, or around 18 days \u2014 the problem has persisted and is pervasive. Setting aggressive goals and making concrete plans to achieve them is the only way to turn that around, the coalition said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It could also be the key to addressing pandemic learning loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kids of different achievement levels, of every race, in every state, in every kind of community, have had higher rates of absenteeism in recent years \u2014 whether their schools closed for a long time or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat kind of churn just makes everything more difficult,\u201d said Hedy Chang, the executive director of Attendance Works, referring to everything from establishing classroom routines to keeping lesson plans on track. \u201cFor me, that actually fuels the urgency of this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trio leading the coalition \u2014 which held a Washington, D.C. event where Chang and others kicked off the campaign \u2014 is an unlikely one. It\u2019s made up of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank; The Education Trust, a leading civil rights group; and Attendance Works, a nonprofit with a long history of working on absenteeism issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is the real threat that we\u2019re looking at now: That chronic absenteeism doesn\u2019t go back down, that it becomes a new normal,\u201d said Nat Malkus, the deputy director of education policy at the American Enterprise Institute. \u201cIt is a big deal, and we\u2019re going to need concerted effort to counter it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Denise Forte, who heads The Education Trust, said the idea to join forces came to her after she and Malkus voiced similar concerns about student absenteeism to the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI thought to myself: This is a unique opportunity with two organizations and two people that don\u2019t always think alike on many things, but on this one we could come together,\u201d Forte said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Virginia and Rhode Island education officials who joined the event said their states had seen close links between who was chronically absent and who was struggling in school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lisa Coons, Virginia\u2019s superintendent of public instruction, said when her staff combed through state test score data last year to understand why they weren\u2019t seeing more learning loss recovery, one consistent factor stood out. In grades 3-8, if a student was chronically absent, they scored 18% lower in reading on average, and 25% lower in mathematics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cKiddos don\u2019t know the work, they don\u2019t want to come to school, they feel like they\u2019re behind, so they get further behind,\u201d Coons said. \u201cWe have to break that cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schools across the country have tried launching new attendance-tracking systems, hiring people to knock on family\u2019s doors, and giving away prizes to help re-engage students. And while many states have reduced their chronic absenteeism rates recently, they generally remain higher than before the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ongoing work to reduce chronic absenteeism will look different across the country, Chang said, especially as the COVID relief dollars that many school districts had relied on to pay for their attendance campaigns dry up at the start of the new school year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe challenge of chronic absence is there are multiple issues and reasons that cause kids to be chronically absent,\u201d she said. \u201cYou have to use your local understanding from kids, families, and your data to really figure out what\u2019s going to make the biggest difference in your community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coalition highlighted the work happening in Rhode Island, which brought down its chronic absenteeism rate by 5 percentage points during the 2022-23 school year. There, state officials put up \u201cWe miss you\u201d billboards to catch students\u2019 attention, and assembled a public dashboard that tracks the daily attendance rate for schools across the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials use it to monitor how attendance is going in middle schools, in high schools, for kids who\u2019ve been chronically absent for three years, and for kids who started to be absent a lot when they were young, said Ang\u00e9lica Infante-Green, the state\u2019s education commissioner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A parent working group helps inform the state\u2019s attendance initiatives, whether that\u2019s figuring out which bodegas and laundromats should hang information flyers, or recommending trusted community members who can knock on families\u2019 doors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is everyone\u2019s responsibility,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/2024\/07\/18\/schools-should-cut-chronic-absenteeism-in-half-says-education-coalition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"canonical noopener\">Chalkbeat<\/a> is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Related<\/em><\/strong>:<br \/><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eschoolnews.com\/educational-leadership\/2024\/08\/01\/addressing-student-absenteeism-with-faculty-pd\/\">Correcting student absenteeism with faculty PD<\/a><br \/><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eschoolnews.com\/educational-leadership\/2024\/01\/15\/addressing-the-root-causes-of-chronic-k-12-absenteeism\/\"><em>Addressing the root causes of chronic K-12 absenteeism<br \/><\/em><\/a><em>For more news on chronic absenteeism, visit eSN’s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eschoolnews.com\/educational-leadership\/\">Educational Leadership<\/a> hub<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From poor reading skills to chaotic classrooms, the stubbornly high rate at which kids are absent from school makes it harder to solve every other problem in education. 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