I have a number of friends who are public school teachers, When the state legislatures cut funding, they often buy supplies on their own to help their students. Maybe Devos can give them money to buy what the legislatures take away. (Yeah, fat chance. She’d probably have them arrested for interfering with “progress”.)
These kids are going to take care of retiring boomers?
Absenteeism in the first month of school can predict poor attendance throughout the school year. Half the students who miss 2-4 days in September go on to miss nearly a month of school.
An estimated 5 million to 7.5 million U.S. students miss nearly a month of school each year.
Absenteeism and its ill effects start early. One in 10 kindergarten and first grade students are chronically absent.
Poor attendance can influence whether children read proficiently by the end of third grade or be held back.
By 6th grade, chronic absence becomes a leading indicator that a student will drop out of high school.
Research shows that missing 10 percent of the school, or about 18 days in most school districts, negatively affects a student’s academic performance. That’s just two days a month and that’s known as chronic absence.
The academic impact of missing that much school is the same whether the absences are excused or unexcused. Suspensions also add to lost time in the classroom.
Low-income students are four times more likely to be chronically absent than others often for reasons beyond their control, such as unstable housing, unreliable transportation and a lack of access to health care.
When students improve their attendance rates, they improve their academic prospects and chances for graduating.
Attendance improves when schools engage students and parents in positive ways and when schools provide mentors for chronically absent students.
Most school districts and states don’t look at all the right data to improve school attendance. They track how many students show up every day and how many are skipping school without an excuse, but not how many are missing so many days in excused and unexcused absence that they are headed off track academically.
jessie d. over 7 years ago
Nah, that’s not real school. This retired teacher had upwards of 40 in a 7th grade class. In Red states we believe in keeping ’em dumb!
RAGs over 7 years ago
I have a number of friends who are public school teachers, When the state legislatures cut funding, they often buy supplies on their own to help their students. Maybe Devos can give them money to buy what the legislatures take away. (Yeah, fat chance. She’d probably have them arrested for interfering with “progress”.)
superposition over 7 years ago
These kids are going to take care of retiring boomers?
Absenteeism in the first month of school can predict poor attendance throughout the school year. Half the students who miss 2-4 days in September go on to miss nearly a month of school.
An estimated 5 million to 7.5 million U.S. students miss nearly a month of school each year.
Absenteeism and its ill effects start early. One in 10 kindergarten and first grade students are chronically absent.
Poor attendance can influence whether children read proficiently by the end of third grade or be held back.
By 6th grade, chronic absence becomes a leading indicator that a student will drop out of high school.
Research shows that missing 10 percent of the school, or about 18 days in most school districts, negatively affects a student’s academic performance. That’s just two days a month and that’s known as chronic absence.
The academic impact of missing that much school is the same whether the absences are excused or unexcused. Suspensions also add to lost time in the classroom.
Low-income students are four times more likely to be chronically absent than others often for reasons beyond their control, such as unstable housing, unreliable transportation and a lack of access to health care.
When students improve their attendance rates, they improve their academic prospects and chances for graduating.
Attendance improves when schools engage students and parents in positive ways and when schools provide mentors for chronically absent students.
Most school districts and states don’t look at all the right data to improve school attendance. They track how many students show up every day and how many are skipping school without an excuse, but not how many are missing so many days in excused and unexcused absence that they are headed off track academically.
http://www.attendanceworks.org/facts-stats-school-attendance/
magicwalnut Premium Member over 7 years ago
Maybe CBS can feature her on an episode of ’Undercover Boss" Call it on the job training.
PsychoZoid over 7 years ago
Kids don’t want to learn in school anymore. They just want to fool around with their friends and be stupid. Public school is a giant playground now.
phredturner over 7 years ago
Republicans do well with a dumbed-down electorate.
Mr. Blawt over 7 years ago
First thing DeVos is going to do is great rid of all those children. No wonder schools weren’t making any money, they were full of kids!
DrDon1 over 7 years ago
And what are Betsy DeVos’s qualifications for this Cabinet position? Why, millions of $$contributed to the “Right” people = GOP campaigners!
ahab over 7 years ago
Bribes out in the open seems to be a consistent Trump standard.