Nearly a quarter of North Carolina public school students missed enough school last year to be called chronically absent, but the state board task force rewriting school grades chose not to count it.
At a Sept. 21 meeting in Raleigh, the State Board of Education Task Force on Accountability for Public Schools agreed to leave chronic absenteeism out of the A-F grades schools receive each year.
Although no formal vote was taken, Curtis Sonneman, accountability director at the Department of Public Instruction (DPI), said he thought the group had consensus, and no member objected…