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Fighting truancy in Chicago schools: A score card on strategies

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Chicago school officials have tried but largely abandoned various strategies for combating truancy in grades K-8 during the past two decades, while collecting little if any data on whether the programs were effective or why some failed. A few programs …
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Report: Truancy a growing problem in county

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The 265 truants, who entered the DeKalb County Truancy Intervention Program (DCTIP) after nine unexcused absences, would now be considered chronic truants under the new guidelines. A student becomes truant after five unexcused absences under the …
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Students in Rockford schools truant, but not really as chronic

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The change in the way district leaders tally truancy means school leaders can better target intervention services. Data look worse. Other districts' chronic truancy rates jumped. In Peoria, for example, the proportion of chronically truant students …
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