Educators combat chronic absenteeism in Tennessee’s state-run school district
Two of Agape’s staff members work with students on reading at Whitney Achievement Elementary School. The staff members, though employed by the Memphis nonprofit, are integrated into school life. (Caroline Bauman)
Special to The Daily Memphian
Caroline Bauman
Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.
Research has shown that when students have more “familiar faces” around them in class, they’re less likely to be chronically absent, so nonprofits like Communities in Schools are sending staff members into local schools to combat absenteeism.