Hi, I read your blog and the attached articles and reviewed the data in both. I am concerned that the data is skewed and presents an inaccurate and inconsistent image of what "chronic absence" means. "10 days" or "10%" (about 18) of total days? Are these excused absences that are still being counted as absences?
The race demographics also create the potential to inflate the numbers by counting Hispanic students as a separate category, but then not distinguishing, "non-hispanic" when listing other groups.
The article also doesn't seem to acknowledge the possibility of homeschooling nor does it account for the fact that sometimes students move and the records system is quite slow to update.
These are not reasons to remove funding from the DOE, they are reasons to increase it so that it can serve the city and students all across the country more efficiently.
NYSED defines chronic absence as 10% of school days, which is the definition I use in the brief (see footnote 7).
We used the demographics categories used by DOE and NYSED on their reports, and I note in Table 1 that the groups don't add up to 100% because they are not mutually exclusive.
Homeschooled students are not formally enrolled in a district school and are not included in these statistics.
NYC DOE has the most expensive public schools in the nation with almost $30,000 per student. There is no evidence that more money to DOE or NYSED will result in better education outcomes for NY children. I have written about this here: https://www.nysun.com/author/danyela-souza-egorov
Hi, I read your blog and the attached articles and reviewed the data in both. I am concerned that the data is skewed and presents an inaccurate and inconsistent image of what "chronic absence" means. "10 days" or "10%" (about 18) of total days? Are these excused absences that are still being counted as absences?
The race demographics also create the potential to inflate the numbers by counting Hispanic students as a separate category, but then not distinguishing, "non-hispanic" when listing other groups.
The article also doesn't seem to acknowledge the possibility of homeschooling nor does it account for the fact that sometimes students move and the records system is quite slow to update.
These are not reasons to remove funding from the DOE, they are reasons to increase it so that it can serve the city and students all across the country more efficiently.
Hi Mika, thanks for reading.
NYSED defines chronic absence as 10% of school days, which is the definition I use in the brief (see footnote 7).
We used the demographics categories used by DOE and NYSED on their reports, and I note in Table 1 that the groups don't add up to 100% because they are not mutually exclusive.
Homeschooled students are not formally enrolled in a district school and are not included in these statistics.
NYC DOE has the most expensive public schools in the nation with almost $30,000 per student. There is no evidence that more money to DOE or NYSED will result in better education outcomes for NY children. I have written about this here: https://www.nysun.com/author/danyela-souza-egorov