Jeff Riley, the state commissioner for K-12 education, says his office will make more regular attendance a top priority in the year ahead and push for 'new responses' to fix the issue.
, state education officials say Massachusetts students are still missing school at “staggering” rates.
“This level of absenteeism is something we've never seen before,” Riley said during a meeting of the state's board of elementary and secondary education Tuesday."The numbers are staggering across this country."students who miss 10% or more school days as “chronically absent.” That means at least 18 days missed in a regular school year, whether those are excused or unexcused absences.
He also proposed assigning greater weight to attendance data as an accountability measure to gauge which districts warrant state intervention in the year ahead.frequent absences from school to negative outcomes beyond mere learning loss, from dropping out of school at higher rates to disciplinary problems.
Riley replied the absenteeism problem is dire enough that “we've got to willing to think about new responses to fix it.” The subject will be up for further discussion at the board’s plannedIn the meantime, Patrick Tutwiler — the state’s education secretary since December — plans to appear in a television commercial to push regular school attendance.
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