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Mississippi’s youngest students pile on the absences, lose learning time

[…] two months since the school year began, 29 percent of the 298 kindergarten students at Neshoba Central have missed at least one day. Eight have missed five days or more.

Statewide, kindergarteners have the lowest average daily attendance rate of any K-8 grade; just 94.5 percent during the 2012-13 school year, according to a Hechinger Report analysis of state education data. That means, on any given day, more than 2,300 Mississippi kindergarteners are out of school.

(via Mississippi’s youngest students pile on the absences, lose learning time | The Hechinger Report)