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Students Can Show Up For 1 Minute And Still Be Marked Present, DC School Board Warns | NewsOne

March 26, 2026
  • D.C. Policy Center

On March 19, 2026, a D.C. Policy Center report was cited in by NewsOne:

According to the D.C. Policy Center, many teenagers in the city miss at least 10% of the academic year, a threshold widely used by researchers to define chronic absenteeism. At the same time, the city’s high school graduation rate rose from 68% in the 2018–2019 school year to 76% in 2022–2023.

Read more: Students Can Show Up For 1 Minute And Still Be Marked Present, DC School Board Warns

Additional reading: Patterns and predictors of chronic absenteeism in D.C.’s middle and high schools

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