The Severity of State Truancy Policies and Chronic Absenteeism

Autor/inn/en	Conry, Jillian M.; Richards, Meredith P.
Titel	The Severity of State Truancy Policies and Chronic Absenteeism
Quelle	In: Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 23 (2018) 1-2, S.187-203 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Conry, Jillian M.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1082-4669
DOI	10.1080/10824669.2018.1439752
Schlagwörter	Truancy; State Policy; Attendance; School Law; Educational Legislation; Public Schools; Hierarchical Linear Modeling; State Legislation; Disproportionate Representation; Elementary Secondary Education; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulabsentismus; Schulschwänzen; Schulverweigerung; Anwesenheit; Law concerning schools; Schulrecht; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Landesrecht; USA
Abstract	Since the Common School era, states have maintained truancy laws to ensure that students attend school. However, we know little about the severity of these laws and their relationship to student outcomes, particularly absenteeism. In this study, we survey state education statutes to document the severity of truancy policies. We estimate the relationship between these truancy policies and rates of chronic absenteeism via multilevel models using data on all U.S. public schools from the Office of Civil Rights. We find that most students live in states where they may be referred to legal authorities for levels of absenteeism below federal standards. We find little evidence that states with truancy policies have lower chronic absenteeism after adjusting for demographic and other characteristics. However, while non-White high-school students are overrepresented among chronic absences overall, they have rates of chronic absenteeism comparable to their White peers in states with less severe truancy policies. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01