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WASHINGTON COUNTY, Va. (WJHL) – Custodians in the Washington County Public Schools system have been approved to work overtime in order to conduct extra cleaning and disinfecting after an increase in student illness. According to superintendent Keith Perrigan, the school district reviewed attendance data and determined that some schools had seen a “slight increase in […]
The school districts singled out in the report and state education officials dispute the findings and say the audit was a misuse of taxpayer money. State lawmakers had requested it.
This essay originally appeared at FutureEd. Student testing at the national, state and local levels has given policymakers a clear, up-to-date picture of learning loss during the pandemic. But on another key recovery metric, student absenteeism, reporting has lagged badly in many states, making it difficult to know if the hundreds of millions of dollars […]
The conviction of Lucy Letby provides a judicial ending – any appeals notwithstanding – to this awful and extraordinary case and a formal way of explaining what happened in the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016. Letby killed seven babies and attempted to kill six others. Her name will now be linked with other so-called British “Angels of Death”, such as Colin Norris, Benjamin Geen, Beverley Allitt, and also with Charles Cullen – more than likely Am
Single landing point for pupil attendance and absence data. This will include the current termly National Statistics (published in May, October and March) and fortnightly experimental statistics derived from DfE’s Attendance Data trial dataset starting on 29th September. This is regular data automatically submitted to DfE by participating schools and is intended to continue the series that was previously sourced from the daily Educational Setting Survey (EdSet). The new reports comprise aggregate metrics on overall absence and reasons for absence estimated at national, regional and local aut...