Education News – Kristin Decarr
“Recently released data from the Superintendent of Public Instruction suggest that 16% of all students in Washington state are chronically absent from school, having missed at least 18 days of instruction, or 10% of the school year, in 2015. Chronic absenteeism is one of the key factors when it comes to whether a child will learn to read on time or graduate from high school. The new data finds one out of every six students in the state was chronically absent last year.”(more)