About one in nine public school students in the Sacramento region were “chronically absent” last school year, meaning they missed at least 10 percent of classes, new state figures show.
Chronic absenteeism is associated with high course failure rates and low high school graduation rates. In the Sacramento region and across California, schools with a high proportion of students living in poverty also tend to have high chronic absenteeism rates.
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