Studies Link Teacher Absences to Lower Student Scores
When the superintendent of a suburban Dallas school district faced a budget shortfall last year, he floated the idea of rewarding individual teachers for excellent attendance and schools for strong student achievement.
If the plan worked, argued Larry Lewis, the superintendent of the 5,800-student Lancaster Independent School District, the school incentives would boost learning and the teacher incentives would save money—more than $200,000 in pay for substitute teachers.
But new research is suggesting that teacher absences affect not only a district’s finances, as Mr. Lewis lamented, but the achievement...
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