School to track down absent students
ABC News Monday 9th May, 2011
A South Burnett school says it is hoping to boost attendance rates under an innovative plan. Cherbourg State School principal Bevan Costello says he will go and pick up students that are marked as absent. Mr Costello says a new bus run is already helping raise attendance rates. "Attendance rates at the moment I think they're around 85 per cent," he said. "We've got a target, we want to get around 90 to 95 per cent, so we're not quite there yet. "It's been working since we've been doing our bus runs, so we just need to get on and push it a bit harder now. "After we do our normal bus run we'll ring around to all the classrooms and find out who's away and then we'll go back out and backtrack and see if we can find those children."
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