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Cleveland 69传媒 Admit Errors in Attendance Reports to State

By Karla Scoon Reid 鈥 October 25, 2005 1 min read
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The Ohio Department of Education is monitoring an effort by the Cleveland school system to explain why the district misreported student-attendance data.

Since 2002, the 63,000-student district has underreported students鈥 excused absences to the state. The district reported 620 such absences for the 2004-05 school year; after a second review this month, district officials said excused absences totaled roughly 519,000 for that school year.

Employees who no longer work for the district counted students 鈥減resent鈥 if they were absent from school but were completing classroom work at home, said Lisa Marie Ruda, the district鈥檚 chief of staff.

The decision to count the students as present put the attendance rate at about 93 percent, a figure that is still under review. The attendance rate was 89 percent in 2001.

J.C. Benton, a spokesman for the Ohio department, said the state would monitor the district鈥檚 review of its data-collection and -reporting process. State law permits the department to withhold 10 percent of a district鈥檚 funding for misreporting data.

Ms. Ruda said the attendance miscalculations do not affect the district鈥檚 per-pupil funding or its state accountability ratings.

A version of this article appeared in the October 26, 2005 edition of Education Week

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