Md. lawmaker requests interventions for absentee elementary students | Washington Examiner

Md. lawmaker requests interventions for absentee elementary students | Washington Examiner

Maryland elementary schools would be required to intervene in the lives of chronically absent students under a bill being filed by a state lawmaker from Montgomery County.

Del. Ana Sol Gutierrez, D-Wheaton, is introducing the proposed law in light of research that says addressing absenteeism in kindergarten and first-grade students will make them less likely to drop out of high school...

...The bill calls for county boards to develop and implement attendance incentive plans and tactics to intervene when students show patterns of "chronic absence," defined as missing 20 or more days in a school year, whether excused or not excused...

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/education/2010/12/md-lawmaker-requests-interventions-absentee-elementary-students#ixzz1A804tC1f