Absenteeism and Truancy Prevention
Absenteeism
Ensuring success in school is helping students get into the habit of attending school every day. Improving school attendance improves success in school. If schools are to improve educational achievement, they will need to address chronic absenteeism.
Promising Approaches
A New School Year Brings Renewed Focus On Attendance
National Public Radio (NPR)
Reducing Chronic Absenteeism: Every Day Counts
Reducing Chronic Absence: What Will it Take?
The Hidden Factor of Low Performance
YouTube
Success Stories
Attendance Works
Tools
Attendance Awareness Month 2021
Resources
Data Tools
Attendance Works
Every Student, Every Day: A Community Toolkit to Address and Eliminate Chronic Absenteeism
(2015)
United States Department of Education
Research and Data
Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC)
Chronic Absenteeism in the Nation's Schools
United States Department of Education
Chronic Elementary Absenteeism: A Problem Hidden in Plain Sight
Attendance Works
New Research Shows Nearly Half of American Parents Underestimate the Harm of School
Absences
United States Department of Education, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, and the Ad
Council Partner
Research
Attendance Works
Utah Specific Research
Attendance and the Early Grades: A Two-Generation Issue
Voices for Utah Children
Chronic Absenteeism in Utah
National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE)
Dropout Prevention
Dropout Prevention is a collective effort of the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) and Local Education Agencies (LEAs) to implement strategies and practices with key components of interventions to reduce dropout rates. The guide provides support to improve access to educational opportunities for each student and offer a wide range of resources to increase graduation rates.
Regulation
R277-606: Dropout Prevention and Recovery Program
USBE Administrative Rules
Title 53E-3-S401: Powers of State Board of Education, Adoption of Rules, Enforcement,
Attorney
Title 53G-9-S802: Dropout Prevention and Recovery, Flexible Enrollment Options, Contracting,
Reporting
Utah State Legislature
Resources
About Check and Connect
University of Minnesota
An evidence based comprehensive dropout prevention and intervention program designed to improve student engagement at school and with learning, through relationship building, problem solving, and capacity building.
Reducing Chronic Absenteeism: Every Day Counts
Reducing Chronic Absence: What Will it Take?
The Hidden Factor of Low Performance
YouTube
National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC)
Success Stories
Attendance Works