For years, school attendance supervisors like Joe Vaverchak in New Britain focused on what percentage of kids showed up each day. But then Vaverchak learned that while some schools in his districts had high overall attendance rates — as high as 96 percent — there were pockets of students with high...
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KATHLEEN MEGAN, Hartford Courant
Mon, 08/29/2016 - 3:48am
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