September is Attendance Awareness Month- Missing School Matters
Missing School Matters!!! Central Texas Attendance Campaign
Each year, Central Texas students are absent 2.4 million days of school.
Students in Central Texas miss more days of school than their peers across the state in every grade. The problem worsens in high school, when Central Texas students are absent far more than in other parts of the state.
Over half of absences in Central Texas were potentially preventable, including routine medical or dental checkups, traveling, or just skipping school.
Student absences are costly to our region in a variety of ways:
• Students can’t learn: If a student is not present at school, they are missing opportunities to learn, to socialize, to gain confidence, and to be inspired.
• Teachers can’t teach: It is much more difficult for teachers to teach effectively when they are “catching up” students who have missed.
• Lost revenue: The state funds schools based on daily attendance - so every day missed costs schools money. This means missing out on teachers, sports programs, and electives due to lack of funding.
Each day your student misses costs your school about $44. In fact, the typical high school in our region loses almost $20,000 every week because of absences. Across the region, our schools lose over $91 million a year!
But it’s not just the money! The consequences of poor attendance are huge: high school students who miss two weeks of school per year are three times more likely to drop out of school than those who missed one week a year.
If we increased attendance on average by just 2 percentage points, or three days per student, we could increase revenues to our schools by over $34 million per year! (Or put another way, we could hire another 600 teachers…)
Community efforts do have an impact. Central Texas schools who participated in a national attendance challenge increased their attendance by over 2%, proving we can reach our regional goal if we all work together.
Do your part:
1. Make friends, neighbors, and coworkers aware of the impact of poor attendance.
2. Offer incentives to employees to increase parental involvement and student attendance.
3. Put an article in your organization’s newsletter.
4. Put a Missing School Matters poster on your door.
5. Use and share the Parents’ Guide to Attendance to prevent unnecessary absences.
Find tools to help at www.MissingSchoolMatters.org
Missing School Matters!!! Central Texas Attendance Campaign
Each year, Central Texas students are absent 2.4 million days of school.
Students in Central Texas miss more days of school than their peers across the state in every grade. The problem worsens in high school, when Central Texas students are absent far more than in other parts of the state.
Over half of absences in Central Texas were potentially preventable, including routine medical or dental checkups, traveling, or just skipping school.
Student absences are costly to our region in a variety of ways:
• Students can’t learn: If a student is not present at school, they are missing opportunities to learn, to socialize, to gain confidence, and to be inspired.
• Teachers can’t teach: It is much more difficult for teachers to teach effectively when they are “catching up” students who have missed.
• Lost revenue: The state funds schools based on daily attendance - so every day missed costs schools money. This means missing out on teachers, sports programs, and electives due to lack of funding.
Each day your student misses costs your school about $44. In fact, the typical high school in our region loses almost $20,000 every week because of absences. Across the region, our schools lose over $91 million a year!
But it’s not just the money! The consequences of poor attendance are huge: high school students who miss two weeks of school per year are three times more likely to drop out of school than those who missed one week a year.
If we increased attendance on average by just 2 percentage points, or three days per student, we could increase revenues to our schools by over $34 million per year! (Or put another way, we could hire another 600 teachers…)
Community efforts do have an impact. Central Texas schools who participated in a national attendance challenge increased their attendance by over 2%, proving we can reach our regional goal if we all work together.
Do your part:
1. Make friends, neighbors, and coworkers aware of the impact of poor attendance.
2. Offer incentives to employees to increase parental involvement and student attendance.
3. Put an article in your organization’s newsletter.
4. Put a Missing School Matters poster on your door.
5. Use and share the Parents’ Guide to Attendance to prevent unnecessary absences.
Find tools to help at www.MissingSchoolMatters.org
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Family Support Co-op Tuesday, February 25, 2014 6:00-8:00 p.m. Eastside Memorial High School. 1012 Arthur Stiles Road, Austin, Tx 78721 512.414.5834 PRESENTATIONS - The Director is In! - Fostering Home & School Success for ADHD - Stories with a Message: Opening Minds, Opening Doors Project of VSA Texas - Grandparents as Guardians - Social Emotional Learning Parent Series-Part 4 -Disability Rights Texas Parent Focus Group -Best Practice in Social Communication Learning SPECIALITY GROUPS - Sibling Support Group Ages 6-12 - Adult ADD Group - Mental Health Family Support Group * Free Child Activities. * 6:00 p.m. Light Meal * 6:30-8:00 p.m. Groups & Presentations Upcomimg Events for February Tuesdays 8:00-9:00 a.m. Walking Club & Nutritional Class |
Próximos Eventos para Febrero Los Martes 8:00- 9:00 a.m. Club de Caminata y Clases de Nutrición. |
