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TONIGHT THE TARGET 12
INVESTIGATORS' ARE:
"TAKING ATTENDANCE"
ABSENCES CAN HAVE A
STUDENT'S ABILITY TO
LEARN.
THAT'S WHY WE WENT TO
EVERY PUBLIC SCHOOL
SEE HOW OFTEN
TEACHERS ARE OUT OF
THE CLASSROOM.
WHAT WE FOUND:
HUNDRED-70-THOUSAND
TARGET 12 INVESTIGATOR
COMPILING THE DATA FOR
WEEKS AND IS HERE NOW
DETAILS.
DISTRICT BY DISTRICT,
WE REVEAL WHICH TOWNS HAD
OTHERS.
IF YOU THINK PROVIDENCE
THINK AGAIN...
CLASSROOMS CAN BE A PETRI
DISH FOR GERMS.
SICK.
BUT SOME SCHOOLS SEE A LOT
OTHERS.
COMPILING RECORDS FROM
SCHOOL DISTRICTS ACROSS
THE STATE FOR THE 2011/2012
SCHOOL YEAR,
OUR ANALYSIS SHOWS PUBLIC
SICK AN AVERAGE OF 9 TIMES IN
A 184 DAY SCHOOL YEAR.
THE DISTRICTS WITH THE TOP
CENTRAL FALLS TEACHERS
WERE SICK AN AVERAGE OF
NORTH PROVIDENCE, 12.8
AND CRANSTON, 12.4
CONSIDER THIS:
STUDENTS IN CENTRAL FALLS:
TEACHERS CALLED IN SICK 13.1
DAYS,
DAYS LAST YEAR,
ACCORDING TO INFORMATION
DEPARTMENT.
Timothy Duffy
Associ.
The
higher the absentee rate, the
students.
(0207)
RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION OF
SAYS HE THINKS TEACHER
CONTRACTS OFTEN PLAY A
MORE ABSENCES THAN
OTHERS.
Timothy Duffy
Associ.
its the inner city districts the
districts where you see a larger
that
may be due to the fact that the
enough to allow or afford
teachers to
legitimately be sick. (0251)
TEACHER ABSENCES...
THAT INCLUDES ANYTHING
FROM SICK DAYS TO
WHERE A TEACHER IS OUT OF
DISTRICTS WITH THE HIGHEST
NUMBERS:
WERE ABSENT 19.3 DAYS ON
AVERAGE LAST YEAR....
DAYS
AND CENTRAL FALLS TEACHERS
north
teachers
to the
spike in absences.
THE SCHOOL DISTRTICT THAT
RELIES THE LEAST ON
SCITUATE.
TEACHERS THERE CALLED OUT
TIMES LAST YEAR
AND WERE ABSENT FROM THE
AVERAGE.
RESPONDED TO OUR RECORDS
REQUEST...
I SPOKE WITH TEACHER'S
UNION HEAD ROBERT WALSH...
HE DISAGREES WITH DUFFY
ROLE IN TEACHER ABSENCES.
AND POINTS OUT THAT, LIKE
THE MEDICAL PROFESSION,
EXPOSED TO A SICK
POPULATION.
WITH THE T12 TW EN
(SR)