Missing Link: What Absenteeism and Risk Load Reveal About NYC's Lowest-Income Schools

Mayor Bill de Blasio will unveil 45 new community schools this month in a much-touted effort to help low-income students. But which schools need the most help? And what kind of supports will have the greatest impact? The Center will release a report exploring these questions in elementary schools. We propose a new measure of poverty, designed to identify the highest needs schools and discuss what should come next in the mayor's bid to reduce poverty's effect on students

Sponsored by the Center for New York City Affairs (http://newschool.edu/milano/nycaffairs) at the Milano School for International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy (http://www.newschool.edu/milano). Support provided by the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, the Sirus Fund, the Donors' Education Collaborative and the United Way of New York City.