1/4 Oregon Students Are Chronically Absent

Kindergartners Miss Ten Percent of School Year

25-percent of Oregon students miss school. A recent Attendance Works study showed that a shocking 130,000 of those students were kindergartners.

Here in the Oregon the numbers are very similar, but unlike other states educators in Oregon are faced with a roadblock. Under current law, students under the age of 7 are not required to attend class.

That's why some schools have started implementing new reward programs for attendance.

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Courtney Olish

NBC5 News reporter and weekend weather anchor Courtney Olish grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. She graduated with honors from the prestigious Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

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Sonny

03 February 2012 at 18:59 | #

The cause of absences is very simple. The State of Oregon mandates that student be present a certain percent of days. When children are absent the school is required to send home threatening letters to the parents, which cause many parents to send the kids to school when the are really sick, which spreads the sickness to the whole school. The law needs to be changed and parents encouraged to keep children who are sick, at home.

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