- Date
- January 24, 2008
In order to get the most from school, students must be in school, because students who are frequently absent miss out on important academic and social learning opportunities. Suspension, expulsion, truancy, and even excused absences due to illness and other factors reduce the time that students spend in the classroom. Increasing school attendance is a critical step toward ensuring educational achievement for all students. OSI-Baltimore supports school- and community-wide responses to student attendance problems that identify and ameliorate root causes at the individual and systemic level.
This OSI fact sheet outlines the state of truancy in Maryland and Baltimore City schools in 2006-2007.