Principals call for more action after David Seymour releases school attendance plan [Video]

Principals are calling for more action from the Government after it released details about how it plans to meet its school attendance targets.   

It comes after Associate Education Minister David Seymour released details about how the Government plans to meet its target of 80 percent of students being present for more than 90 percent of the school term.   

Seymour is the lead minister in charge of the target and said the “truancy crisis” must be fixed.    

On Tuesday Seymour announced several new measures to improve attendance including mandatory daily reporting of attendance data, a traffic light system, making attendance a strategic priority for school boards and using improved data and analysis to distinguish the drivers of non-attendance to target interventions.  

The new measures are in addition to changes already being implemented including a national campaign highlighting the importance of attendance, updating public health guidance about when kids should stay home …