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Elsie Agustina Rosa – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation aims to elucidate the complexities of chronic absenteeism in Head Start Programs post-COVID-19 to enhance early childhood education practices and policies. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, the study investigates the causes of absenteeism by surveying and interviewing 50 participants from a Head Start Program in the New York…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Truancy, Federal Programs, Low Income Students
Wilson, Sheena – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this quantitative, nonexperimental study was to determine if and to what extent a difference existed in the percentage of African American students, percentage of economically disadvantaged students, and students' attendance rate in elementary schools that made adequate yearly progress (AYP) and those that did not make AYP in one…
Descriptors: African American Students, Economically Disadvantaged, Attendance, Attendance Patterns
VonSchnase, Kyle T. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Since the passage of The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, a superintendent's role has been redefined and more focus has been placed on student achievement. Research demonstrates that rural public schools are faced with an educational crisis. Rural districts are faced with an epidemic of declining enrollments/budgets, increased drop-out rates, low…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Homeless People, Low Income, Declining Enrollment