Tag Archives: #Attendance Works

The Road to Two Providences

We need new leadership, fresh ideas and innovative strategies to stanch the growing epidemic of absenteeism in the Providence public schools. We need to act now to keep hundreds, if not thousands, of early elementary school students from falling behind … Continue reading

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Ring the bell. School’s in session.

If you don’t show up at school, you can’t learn. And if you don’t show up at high school, you’re likely to have just as much trouble showing up at work or at college. During the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school … Continue reading

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