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Cleveland Attendance in the News Again

Well, well. It turns out that perhaps those excused absence statistics for Cleveland schools weren't just a simple accounting error after all.

The Plain Dealer reports that a random audit of two Cleveland schools discovered attendance anomalies during "Average Daily Membership" week, during which the state computes how much per-pupil aid each district gets.

A lot of states use this method of distributing school funds. I'll bet this problem isn't unique to Cleveland.

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