A data story for and with the Providence Mayor's Children and Youth Cabinet. The primary goal of the story is to understand factors affecting attendance in elementary school. Our focus school is Bailey Elementary.
The goals of this data story include:
1) Understand how data can help our understanding of what strategies we need to focus on to improve outcomes;
2) Understand the issues we will need to focus on to create an integrated data system at the individual level, including data gaps, confidentiality issues, and technical issues;
3) Understand factors affecting attendance at three grade levels and use data story to inform work on attendance.
Our first focus school is Bailey Elementary.
Schools can not teach students who are not there. Understanding the degree and nature of low attendance among the youngest students, as well as what they have in common, gives us insight into possible ways of mitigating both the absenteeism and its deleterious effects.
A data story previewing the linkage of data from K-12 to higher education.
