Student Attendance Records
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In 2003, the Ohio House budget called for a shift in the way students are counted because it believed that Average Daily Membership (ADM) counts "phantom students" and it preferred to count Average Daily Attendance (ADA) (Testimony, 2003). Tom Mooney, President of the Ohio Federation of Teachers testified before the Ohio Senate Education Committee that because a student is absent on a given day, the cost of the educating that student is not reduced at all. Students who have erratic attendance records actually cost more to educate, he said, because they need additional teacher time to catch up and to assign and monitor make up work. Students with chronic attendance problems require more intensive intervention, which involves school social workers as well. The school and the school district are likely to be working with the juvenile courts to address truancy problems. He said he bould not understand why the House believed that costs were reduced when students do not attend school regularly. He added that schools do no need additional incentives to work hard at keeping students in the classroom (Testimony,2003). Apart from their intrinsic professional motivation, state report cards and the public attention to them provide more than enough incentive, Mooney stated. Attendance is not only one of the report card indicators, but students who do not attend regularly do not do well on proficiency tests, and those who do not even show up to take these tests are counted as fai
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nd this will vary from district to district, being higher in lower-income districts, which will further disadvantage these students. Allocating funding by ADM gives an even funding base and assures there is sufficient funding should all students be present. It is unfair to compromise students who do attend classes regularly because of those who don't or can't. There must be funding available for education for all students every day, even if all are not able to take advantage of it every school day.
To equalize funding on a cost-quality basis, schools in the most need and with the least resources should receive the most help with funding. Schools in wealthier districts which have a high level of local support, and have corporate or local business partnerships, and other sources of local funding should need and receive less support, whereas school in disadvantaged communities which have very little, if anything, in the way of local support, should receive more funding so that all would have access to an equal level of education.
The school funding system should remain flexible so that it can respond as revenues and expenditures of schools changed based on demographic and economic factors. Quarterly reports would help in t
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