End of year attendance report shows more students are attending regularly - Morgan Messenger

End of year attendance report shows more students are attending regularly - Morgan Messenger

by Kate Evans Morgan County Schools Assistant Superintendent Jeromy Duelley reported on the end-of-year attendance data at the June 3 Morgan County School Board meeting. Dr. Robert Dugan, Curriculum and Attendance Coordinator, helped with the presentation. The end-of-the-year percentage of Morgan County Schools students considered chronically absent in the fourth quarter of the 2024-2025 school year was 25%.   In the first quarter the total was …

It’s Time to Reject Chronic Absenteeism as the New Normal in Student Attendance

The day education leaders, researchers and advocates have feared is here: It is now clear that student attendance will not return to pre-pandemic rates on its own. The number of students missing more than 10% of the school year skyrocketed in the COVID years from 15% in 2019 to 28% in 2022. Five years after the pandemic, attendance still hasn’t returned to normal, with 23% of K-12 students chronically absent. America must reject the new normal o…