Louisiana Public Schools

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For the public schools of Louisiana and across the United States I would propose the expansion of healthcare services provided by the school, an increase in after school and community programs, and the use of a comprehensive curriculum. I would also suggest a decreased emphasis on testing and test results as they apply to school accountability.

It is suggested by data from NAEP testing that school absences is one of the factors that has a negative impact on student learning and therefore on overall grade point average and test scores. In a table that shows the coloration of school days missed with the percent of student with a 3.0 of higher grade point average, in the Sioux Falls school district in South Dakota, data suggests that as absences increase the percentage of students with a 3.0 GPA falls. NAEP testing also suggests that there is a significant gap between students that have not missed any days of school and students that have missed more than 10. Linda Jacobson, in her article entitled “Absences in the Early Grades Leads to Learning Lags,” published in Education Week in O...

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