{"id":7790,"date":"2012-05-22T10:04:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T14:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=7790"},"modified":"2012-05-22T10:12:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T14:12:09","slug":"adding-up-the-cost-of-floridas-absenteeism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/05\/22\/adding-up-the-cost-of-floridas-absenteeism\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding Up The Cost Of Florida&#8217;s Absenteeism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7796\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/05\/22\/adding-up-the-cost-of-floridas-absenteeism\/absentdesk\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7796\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7796\" title=\"AbsentDesk\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/05\/AbsentDesk-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/05\/AbsentDesk-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/05\/AbsentDesk.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Melinda Taber \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Take a look at how many students are chronically absent in your school or district.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday we told you about a <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/05\/21\/explaining-the-creeping-cost-of-missing-school\/\">new study tabulating the often hidden cost of absenteeism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But it isn&#8217;t hidden in Florida, which is one of a handful of states which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fldoe.org\/eias\/eiaspubs\/pubstudent.asp\">tracks chronic absenteeism.<\/a> Florida considers students who miss 21 or more days of schools as chronically absent.<\/p>\n<p>Rural school districts tend to have higher rates of chronic absenteeism than urban district.<\/p>\n<p>But Pinellas County is an exception. Nearly 18 percent of students in a school district of more than 125,000 students missed 21 or more days of school.<\/p>\n<p>Those days stack up quick, according to Florida Department of Education data. Pinellas County students missed at least 467,586 days last year &#8212; or the equivalent of nearly 2,600 school years total.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Check out these tables to see how your district fares.<\/p>\n<p>[spreadsheet key=&#8221;0Av06TaO9jXYrdGhqdW9PVGM3aldSX2NuQW84ZFpZeGc&#8221; source=&#8221;&#8221; filter=0 paginate=1 sortable=1]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we told you about a new study tabulating the often hidden cost of absenteeism. But it isn&#8217;t hidden in Florida, which is one of a handful of states which tracks chronic absenteeism. Florida considers students who miss 21 or more days of schools as chronically absent. Rural school districts tend to have higher rates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":7796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[433,1110],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}