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Earlier this year, AttendNC Counts introduced North Carolina’s Attendance Bright Spots, highlighting schools that had made unusually strong progress reducing chronic absenteeism since its pandemic-era peak. That first analysis offered a simple starting point by highlighting schools that had cut chronic absenteeism by 50% or more and inviting a practical next question: Which schools are reducing chronic absenteeism, and what can we learn from them? 

Attendance Works’ 50% Challenge offers a simple but ambitious goal for states: cut chronic absenteeism in half by supporting the conditions that ensure effective solutions are adopted at scale.