The real cost of kids missing school

AUSTIN (KXAN) — For school districts in Texas, when a student misses class for a day, the district loses approximately $33 that day. Regardless of a districts’ attendance rate or socioeconomic level of students, absences hurt both the student and the district.
Lake Travis Independent School District Superintendent Brad Lancaster says his district usually sees an increase in absences each year in the spring, which is a problem since that’s when schools get ready for standar