One of the most persistent challenges for urban high schools is progressing kids toward graduation day. The schools in Baltimore, like in many cities in the U.S., struggle to get students out the door and into college.
While dropout rates have declined somewhat in the ast few years, Baltimore schools are still only graduating 66 percent of students within four years. For the most at-risk students, that percentage plummets to 43 percent.
A report last fall from the Baltimore City Public Schools noted that the correlation between attendance and graduation is "unequivocal." When kids show up, they tend to graduate. "We need to identify what is causing so many of our students to miss so many days of school, then work to get them to school and keep them there," said the then-interim CEO of the city's schools, Tisha Edwards.
[For more of this story, written by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, go to http://www.citylab.com/work/20...-being-heard/381599/]
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