HomeMy WebLinkAboutAttendance Awareness Month September 2025Proclamation
“Attendance Awareness Month”
September 2025
WHEREAS, our region is experiencing a school absenteeism crisis, making good attendance
more essential than ever to student well-being, achievement, and graduation thus influencing the
career opportunities for the youngest community members as they enter adulthood; and
WHEREAS, reducing chronic absence (missing 10% or more of school for any reason) requires
a comprehensive, collaborative approach that starts with prevention and early intervention and
supports ongoing parent and caregiver awareness of the importance of each hour of school
attendance; and
WHEREAS, improving attendance and engagement takes families, school systems, business
owners and employees, elected leaders, and other community partners working together to address
the factors that cause students to miss school and those that increase student attendance; and
NOW, THEREFORE, I, David Milne, Mayor of the City of Pasco, Washington, do hereby
proclaim September 2025 as
“Attendance Awareness Month”
and encourage all residents to join in and stand with the nation in its commitment to the academic
success of all students by focusing on reducing absenteeism to give all children an equal opportunity
to learn, grow, and thrive as they gain the knowledge and skills needed for high school graduation,
the essential pathway to careers needed in our region.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Official Seal of the
City of Pasco, State of Washington, to be affixed this 2nd day of September 2025.
David Milne, Mayor
City of Pasco