Robert Balfanz on Bloomberg Radio – Chronic Absenteeism

By Sean Burns, on December 9, 2011, at 4:41 pm

Robert Balfanz of Johns Hopkins University’s Everyone Graduates Center, Hedy Nai-Lin Chang of Attendance Works, Marie Groark of the Get Schooled Foundation and Heidi Stevens of Schools Every Day, discuss chronic absences among early learners, its impact on school communities, and high school graduation rates. They talk with Jane Williams on Bloomberg Radio’s “Bloomberg EDU.”