Associated Press - May 20, 2009 9:15 PM ET
NEW YORK (AP) - New York City has started putting daily attendance rates
at its 1,500 public schools online amid concern about the spread of swine flu.
The data releases began Wednesday as two more schools closed because of
unusually high amounts of flu-like sickness. Students also were told to stay
away longer than planned from another school that lost an assistant principal to the disease.
Wednesday's attendance ranged as low as 39% at one school, but education officials caution
that high absenteeism doesn't necessarily signal a flu outbreak. Mayor Michael Bloomberg says
many parents are keeping their children home simply out of fear of the virus.
Nonetheless, more than half the city's schools had 90% or more of their students in class Wednesday.
On the Net:
NYC school attendance rates: http://schools.nyc.gov/Home/Spotlight/closures.htm
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daily updated list of school closures and school attendance rates
can we get hitorical data and a chart ?
June 9: 75.0%
June 8: 86.3%
June 3: 86%
May 26: 82%
May 04 : 87%
NEW YORK (AP) - New York City has started putting daily attendance rates
at its 1,500 public schools online amid concern about the spread of swine flu.
The data releases began Wednesday as two more schools closed because of
unusually high amounts of flu-like sickness. Students also were told to stay
away longer than planned from another school that lost an assistant principal to the disease.
Wednesday's attendance ranged as low as 39% at one school, but education officials caution
that high absenteeism doesn't necessarily signal a flu outbreak. Mayor Michael Bloomberg says
many parents are keeping their children home simply out of fear of the virus.
Nonetheless, more than half the city's schools had 90% or more of their students in class Wednesday.
On the Net:
NYC school attendance rates: http://schools.nyc.gov/Home/Spotlight/closures.htm
----------------------------------------------------
daily updated list of school closures and school attendance rates
can we get hitorical data and a chart ?
June 9: 75.0%
June 8: 86.3%
June 3: 86%
May 26: 82%
May 04 : 87%
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