While Superintendent of Schools James A. Williams believes"attendance is necessary for success...attendance is a problem to begin with and one of the key indicators as to why so many of our children are underachieving," in a statement three weeks ago, his budget for 2011-2012 does not include reinstating the attendance teacher or truancy officers laid-off in 2005.
Meanwhile the head of the Buffalo Teachers Federation called the absenteeism rate in the district elementary schools from the 2007 through 2009 as "staggering," "numbing" and "horrendous" in a report he released to the media today.
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