COVID-19 dramatically impacted school attendance, especially among students facing other challenges like housing insecurity. Read more about what chronic absenteeism is and why we should care about it from the AFT: https://bit.ly/4cwQ0r2
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THE CONVERSATION (UK) UK School World Troubles School suspensions are on the rise – secondary schools can tackle this by creating a sense of belonging The latest figures released by Department for Education show a stark rise in rates of school suspension, where a child is not allowed to attend the school for a set time, typically on disciplinary grounds. Suspensions are up 31% in spring 2022-23 from the same period the previous year. Meanwhile, schools face parallel issues, including high rates of absence and permanent exclusion (when a child is no longer permitted to attend their school) numbers that have gone back up to pre-pandemic levels. Worryingly, this is an arena in which educational inequalities are evident.
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"The issue is not about convincing parents of the need to send their children to school – it’s about building and funding the public infrastructure that allows them to do so." Persistent school absenteeism is one of the central challenges facing the education sector right now, but the policy discourse on solutions remains insular and consistently ignores the perspectives of children and young people from groups who find it most difficult to have their voices heard. In the first of a two-part blog series, Associate Conor Carleton calls for increased funding for public services and argues that solutions to school absenteeism lie outside the education sector. Read now: https://lnkd.in/dpeqtD9A
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More than three years after the pandemic began, 2 out of 3 students nationwide attended a school with high chronic absenteeism. Linda Jacobson analyzes new federal data that shows the problem is worse than previously understood, with chronic absenteeism having doubled since 2017 in The 74 https://lnkd.in/ggwt8YNR #Education #ChronicAbsenteeism #SchoolAttendance #EducationResearch #StudentAttendance #EducationSystem #EducationNews
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While public schools can no longer discriminate against students based on their race, unfortunately, they continue to use school district and attendance area boundaries to exclude or limit students’ opportunities based on where they live. Oftentimes, the only way for students to access higher-quality public schools than the ones they’re assigned to is by moving inside their attendance boundaries. However, this option is only available to families who can afford to do so since housing costs typically increase based on their proximity to better schools. Unfortunately, living on the wrong side of a school boundary isn’t just bad luck. Even today, schools and governments gerrymander boundaries to exclude students they perceive as undesirable. #educationalredlining #redlining #education #schooldistricts
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Chronic absenteeism is making front-page news these days because chronic absenteeism across the country has almost doubled. https://lnkd.in/eTuvr4tv While addressing chronic absenteeism can feel like an insurmountable challenge, there are many things that schools, districts, and other partnering organizations can do to create meaningful change. The latest Safe & Civil Schools newsletter looks at resources to help schools and districts create a culture of good attendance: https://lnkd.in/gxb5YfSC
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When students feel that they #matter, they are more likely to attend school. Researchers have studied the correlation between feelings of mattering and school attendance rates. Something as simple as students knowing they are missed when they are not there, having one trusted adult at school, and feeling truly seen, heard and valued, foster school environments where students know that they are valued at their core and are relied on to contribute to their school community. This is one of the reasons we are piloting our first-of-its-kind mattering curriculum at the Mattering Movement https://lnkd.in/ea5Mwm-V
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There's a lot of talk about persistent school absenteeism at the moment. A lot of this centres on what parents and schools should be doing. There's much less talk about the wider context. In some areas of England, bus services have been cut by over 60% since 2010. Cuts to housing budgets have left many families stuck in temporary accommodation or forced to pay extortionate private sector rents. A lack of investment in the health and social care sector means primary care services remain largely inaccessible for many people with additional accessibility needs - with family members often filling the gap. In my first CfEY blog, I argue that we need to look further than school settings to tackle persistent absenteeism. Solutions come from properly funding public services and through learning from the experiences of children and young people who come from groups who find it most difficult to have their voices heard. Have a read and let me know your thoughts!
"The issue is not about convincing parents of the need to send their children to school – it’s about building and funding the public infrastructure that allows them to do so." Persistent school absenteeism is one of the central challenges facing the education sector right now, but the policy discourse on solutions remains insular and consistently ignores the perspectives of children and young people from groups who find it most difficult to have their voices heard. In the first of a two-part blog series, Associate Conor Carleton calls for increased funding for public services and argues that solutions to school absenteeism lie outside the education sector. Read now: https://lnkd.in/dpeqtD9A
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Chronic absenteeism is the 'biggest problem' for schools. But why are kids actually missing school? USA TODAY lists the five biggest reasons why https://lnkd.in/egDgn-yJ #ChronicAbsenteeism #EducationMatters #StudentSuccess #SchoolAttendance #EducationForAll #LearningMatters
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Every single time our political leaders say they have the best interest of their constituents at hand, I grab my 🍿 We can't talk about "care" without talking about Total Care, the trio. Healthcare + Paid Leave + Childcare = Total Care We can't talk about one without the others anymore. We're taking these new era challenges down the same tired, outdated, oldschool 1950's system and it's literally killing people. 50% of our current workforce is female. We haven't pivoted to embrace a society that acknowledges THIS FACT let alone the reality of what comes with it. "Once largely limited to poor women and minorities, single motherhood is now becoming the new 'norm'. This prevalence is due in part to the growing trend of children born outside marriage — a societal trend that was virtually unheard of decades ago." Single motherhood has grown so common in 🇺🇸 today 80% of single-parent families are headed by single mothers — 1/3 live in poverty. How many organizations are truly set up to accommodate this? Not many. Let's take it a step further. Christian leaders who don't want women to get abortions will not set up the right infrastructure to support life... like Indiana 🤨👇 Why then are we surprised by these outcome(s)? Unmarried women on avg have 87.3% of reported abortions and many would not be with their partner. Additionally, 60.7% of women who reported having an abortion were ALREADY mothers. So even more women would fall into this exact 🪣 but we have a 🇺🇸 that doesn't support "life" now and yet women are criminal for considering abortion? THIS is criminal, if this is what we call pro life. Our leaders (80% male) do not build a workforce or an economy to support half of their current stakeholders... and we pay for it every single day. Addiction, skyrocketing chronic disease, suicide rates in children, chemicals in foods making our kiddos sick, astronomical infant and maternal mortality rates, and parents trying to work but make juuuust enough money they don't qualify for assistance 🤕 Most small businesses cannot afford one let alone all three Total Care factors and many individuals in poverty work at a small business who can't provide these benefits. So how does anything get better? And we sit here and post articles like this and put even more weight on school systems and TEACHERS who get paid $40,000 a year 😂👌 "Family poverty is one issue at the core of the problem, Jenner said. When asked why they are so frequently absent from school, high school students have said that they have to care for younger siblings while a parent works." ✅ Quality universal childcare ✅ Improved healthcare coverage for functional/integrative options ✅ Universal paid leave for caregivers Total Care drives us into a new area of wellness for a generation of kids and families who need new solutions NOW. We're the only industrialized nation not adhering to "❤️ your neighbor." Let's all find our place to support better care 💙💛💚 #Onward ➡️
“When they’re missing almost a month of school, or in some cases more than a month, it’s causing significant challenges for our educators to get them caught back up." --- Katie Jenner, Indiana State Department of Education Read more about the disturbing trends in chronic absenteeism in Indiana and across the country. 👇 👇 👇 Duncan Young Jayne Demsky The Kennedy Forum Amy Conklin Melanie Shaver-Durham Eryn Wike Michael Roseman Lindsay Foglio Aaron Winik Jen Murray #K12education #schooldistricts #youthmentalhealthmatters
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