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Attendance

enrollment are all highly sensitive to absenteeism. Missing even some school can

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Improves Attendance

have negative effects, especially for students who live in or near poverty. Missing

attendance for the 2013-2014

a lot of school, at any time, throws students completely off track to educational

school year. After the district

success.” 23 Chronic absenteeism, generally defined as missing 10 percent or

placed a school nurse in every

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