slow in coming, it does not make them any less important. Additionally, attendance improvement initiatives can have many positive impacts in the shorter term. They help families to understand attendance requirements better and demonstrate that school districts care about their children, want to support their school success, and will try to help resolve issues behind chronic absence. To that end, they also connect students and families with school and community resources, which can improve not only students’ attendance, but also their school experience. In the ideal case, attendance improvement initiatives will dovetail with efforts toward improved attachment and achievement to create school success. Student Advocacy is available to provide technical assistance to any attendance improvement workgroup. Contact Karen Blumenthal, Policy Advocate, at . References and Resources in the Early Grades: Why it Matters for Reading”. From Attendance Works, “Attendance February 2014. Attendance Works and Everyone Graduates Center. Portraits of Change: Aligning School and Community Resources to Reduce Chronic Absence. September, 2017. Balfanz, Robert and Byrnes, Vaughan. Meeting the Challenge of Combatting Chronic Absenteeism: Impact of the NYC Mayor’s Interagency Task Force on Chronic Absenteeism and School Attendance and its Implications on Other Cities. From Attendance Works, November 2013.
slow in coming, it does not make them any less important. Additionally, attendance improvement initiatives can have many positive impacts in the shorter term. They help families to understand attendance requirements better and demonstrate that school districts care about their children, want to support their school success, and will try to help resolve issues behind chronic absence. To that end, they also connect students and families with school and community resources, which can improve not only students’ attendance, but also their school experience. In the ideal case, attendance improvement initiatives will dovetail with efforts toward improved attachment and achievement to create school success. Student Advocacy is available to provide technical assistance to any attendance improvement workgroup. Contact Karen Blumenthal, Policy Advocate, at . References and Resources “Attendance in the Early Grades: Why it Matters for Reading”. From Attendance Works, February 2014. Attendance Works and Everyone Graduates Center. Portraits of Change: Aligning School and Community Resources to Reduce Chronic Absence. September, 2017. Balfanz, Robert and Byrnes, Vaughan. Meeting the Challenge of Combatting Chronic Absenteeism: Impact of the NYC Mayor’s Interagency Task Force on Chronic Absenteeism and School Attendance and its Implications on Other Cities. From Attendance Works, November 2013.