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A Bold New Challenge!
We’re calling on everyone to embrace a bold yet achievable national chronic absenteeism challenge: cut chronic absenteeism rates from pandemic highs in half over the next five years.
View the livestream of "Coming Together on Chronic Absenteeism: Schools’ Top Priority This Year." We partnered with The Education Trust and Nat Malkus with the American Enterprise Institute to announce the challenge and hear from state and district leaders about how they are improving engagement and attendance. One piece of an effective attendance improvement strategy is awareness.
It is clear that making progress to turn around the very high levels of chronic absenteeism seen throughout the country will require goals and strategic actions, a long-term commitment and a willingness to reassess and revise plans or approaches that are not effective.
As we move towards achieving our national goal, Attendance Works will first develop resources to assist states. Download the initial look at our State Road Map. We recommend states consider these priority routes: family engagement; student connectedness; relevant and engaging learning; health, well-being and safety; and access to learning. Stay tuned for additional resources.
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