We can't teach kids who are not in school
My new report shows how prevalent chronic absenteeism is in NY and what can be done about it
Today my new report for the Manhattan Institute was published: Chronic Absenteeism Is Hampering School Improvement Efforts in New York City What Can Be Done About It?
The report shows how absenteeism has increased since the pandemic, how other states and charter schools are addressing this problem, which districts schools are doing a good job, and provide recommendations to the city and state.
NY Post: Bombshell study reveals 300k NYC public school students are chronically absent
Here is the article by Carl Campanile in the NY Post about my report:
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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.