Report | Education, Poverty & Schools
A Better Picture of Poverty:
What Chronic Absenteeism and Risk Load Reveal About NYC's Lowest-Income Elementary Schools (2014)
By Kim Nauer, Nicole Mader, Gail Robinson and Tom Jacobs with Bruce Cory, Jordan Moss and Aryn Bloodworth
Chronic absenteeism correlates with deep poverty--high rates of homelessness, child abuse reports, male unemployment, and low levels of parental education.
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Scaling the Community School Strategy in New York City (2014)
New York City has long been home to some of the nation's most celebrated community schools -- where school leaders, community partners, and parents come together to build a network of comprehensive support services around students and their families -- but until recently there has been little support for this strategy at the city level.
This changed in June when the de Blasio administration introduced an initiative to establish 100 more community schools and announced a grant to launch the first 45 this school year. While this initiative can draw on lessons learned by the many community school systems developing nationwide, New York City will have the challenge and opportunity of adapting them to a school district with over 1.1 million children.
Report | Education, Poverty & Schools
Strengthening Schools by Strengthening Families:
Community Strategies to Reverse Chronic Absenteeism in the Early Grades and Improve Supports for Children and Families (2008)
The Center for New York City Affairs at The New School report on the New York City public schools documents high rates of chronic absenteeism at the elementary level. The report also examines possible solutions for elementary schools dealing with this crisis. While New York City has long struggled with attendance problems in the high schools and middle schools, problems at the elementary schools have been largely overlooked until now. Last year, more than 90,000 children in grades K through 5 (more than 20 percent of enrollment) missed at least one month of school. In high poverty neighborhoods, the number was far higher, approaching one-third of primary grade students.