Student Absences Costing Sacramento City Unified School District Millions - CBS Local
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Parents are letting their students stay home and it’s costing the Sacramento City Unified School District millions of dollars.
At Leataata Floyd Elementary School, nearly a quarter of the students miss at least 18 days a year, and a new report says parents are a big part of the problem.
Parents have heard every excuse in the book when their child wants to miss school, but the school district is suffering from too many excused absences called in by parents.
“It’s a cycle we are trying to put a wedge in,” school district employee Barbara Kronick said.
She led a study that looked at absences in 2011 and found 10