This brief written by Attendance Works provides district leaders in California guidance on funding mechanisms to fund chronic absence initiatives.

It explains four major funding mechanisms to fund chronic absence initiatives:

1. Leveraging Average Daily Attendance

2. Capitalizing on the Local Control Funding Formula

3. Applying for Proposition 47 funds, and

4. Applying for the California Scale-Up MTSS State-wide (SUMS) Initiative Technical Assistance grant.

Download the full Brief: How the Rubber Meets the Road: Funding Efforts to Reduce Chronic Absence in California School Districts.