A third of Oregon high school seniors deemed ‘chronically absent’


OPB: One in three Oregon seniors misses a day of school out of every 10.

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OPB: One in three Oregon seniors misses a day of school out of every 10.

More than one-third of the entire student bodies at some high schools were chronically absent, including Sweet Home High School, Taft High School in Lincoln City, and Portland’s Roosevelt High School.  

At some alternative and charter programs, there’s a majority of students attending less than 90 percent of the time.  

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