9/6/2016 New York City among districts with high student absenteeism | Chalkbeat TAKING ATTNDANC New York Cit among ditrict with high tudent aenteeim Chritina Veiga @cveiga cveiga@chalkeat.org PULIHD: eptemer 6, 2016 - 6:00 a.m. DT COMMNT Chronic aenteeim, largel regarded a a prolem for chool ditrict erving poor tudent, i actuall much more widepread. Rich or poor, uran or rural, large or mall, 89 percent of all chool ditrict truggle with ome level of chronic aenteeim, according to a report releaed Tueda Attendance Work, a national advocac organization. PONOR http://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2016/09/06/newyorkcityamongdistrictswithhighstudentabsenteeism/#.V87SgSgrJ4c 1/5 9/6/2016 New York City among districts with high student absenteeism | Chalkbeat till, half of all chronicall-aent tudent were concentrated in onl 4 percent of the countr’ chool ditrict, including New York Cit. Uing federal data to pinpoint how man tudent mied 15 da or more of cla, the report found that 3.5 percent of tudent in New York Cit were chronicall aent in 2013-14 — a urpriingl low numer that the cit’ Department of ducation acknowledged wa an error. In fact, 31 percent of tudent were chronicall aent, according to the cit’ own anali uing the federal definition. To calculate chronic aenteeim, the cit uuall ue the more roadl-accepted tandard of tudent who have mied 10 percent or more of the chool ear — tpicall 18 to 20 da. Under that tandard, the rate in New York Cit wa: 27.6 percent in 2013-14 25.5 percent in 2014-15 25 percent in 2015-16 Kim Nauer, education reearch director at the Center for New York Cit Affair, aid accurate data collection i crucial for figuring out who mie chool, and wh. “If ou track chronic aence and then ou look at the chool that have reall high rate … that allow ou to deplo our reource to thoe chool,” he aid. The picture wa further muddied on Frida when the New York Pot reported that Chancellor Carmen Fariña had mireported the chronic aenteeim rate for Renewal chool roughl 20 point at a preentation to tate official in Octoer. A pokeperon for the Department of ducation acknowledged the error to the Pot, ut that mitake i unrelated to the federal undercount. http://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2016/09/06/newyorkcityamongdistrictswithhighstudentabsenteeism/#.V87SgSgrJ4c 2/5 9/6/2016 New York City among districts with high student absenteeism | Chalkbeat Hed N. Chang, executive director of Attendance Work, aid he wa confident the federal data accuratel reflect large-cale trend and offered an explanation for wh ome of the numer ma e off. “The concluion nationwide are reall ound,” he aid. “Thi wa elf-reported data and it wa a firt-time data collection.” New York Cit ha een conidered a leader when it come to oth tracking and addreing chronic aenteeim. Real-time data tem allow chool to flag individual tudent who mi chool often, and the cit ha pioneered mentoring program that have een replicated acro the countr. An evaluation of program tarted under former Maor Michael loomerg found that tudent were 52 percent more likel to ta enrolled in high chool, and poor, minorit tudent were 15 percent le likel to e chronicall aent. Maor ill de laio ha alo taken on the iue, partl through the launch of dozen of “communit chool.” Thoe chool receive extra funding for everthing from mental health upport to additional taffer taked with keeping an ee on attendance. Reearch ha hown that tudent who are chronicall aent are more likel to fail clae, e upended and drop of out of high chool. “We know that chronic aence i a huge, overlooked factor dragging down tudent achievement,” Chang aid. “We need to figure out how to ring everone together to get kid to chool.” IN THI TORY: ATTNDANC, CHRONIC ANTIM, COMMUNITY CHOOL : Chritina Veiga @cveiga cveiga@chalkeat.org Chritina Veiga i a reporter for Chalkeat New York covering earl childhood education, chool diverit and the Department of ducation. he previoul covered K-12 education for the Miami Herald. FOLLOW CHALKAT NW YORK http://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2016/09/06/newyorkcityamongdistrictswithhighstudentabsenteeism/#.V87SgSgrJ4c 3/5
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