I will be moving into the office this year on a part time basis. My official title will be "Attendance Czar". We have been having trouble the last couple of years with a decline in the rate of attendance. Some possible areas to research are: How attendance affects the school financially, what financial resources are available for monitoring and intervention, positive and negative reinforcement to improve attendance, the relationship of failure and drop outs to absenteeism, and attendance rates in relation to an economically disadvantaged status or a parent's education.The significance of the research is to explore the root causes of low attendance rates and find avenues to help alleviate this problem in our schools. I would like to create an action plan that would benefit the administration, teachers, and more specifically the at-risk students in our school. This action plan will reduce drop out rates, increase Taks scores, and save my school district money.