Chandler Unified School District Superintendent Frank Narducci admits that when he was a student growing up in the 1970s, he needed motivation to go to school.

“I was one of those kids, if I could stay home and watch ‘Price Is Right’ versus going to junior high school, I’m going to stay home and watch ‘Price Is Right.’”

Narducci made the comment during a recent meeting of the Chandler Unified Governing Board. Students returned to CUSD classrooms on July 16 and one problem the district is trying to solve is convincing them to come to school.

Chronic absenteeism was one of the few areas that district officials missed their goal in the metrics they use to judge how they are doing.

Indeed, CUSD has the highest chronic absenteeism

The goal was for less than 10% of CUSD students to be chron

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