Marc Levy School Committee offices and Cambridge Rindge and Latin School facilities in Mid-Cambridge.

A significant percentage of high school students in Cambridge could be in danger of losing credit for courses because of a new policy meant to combat chronic absenteeism.

Last year, 36% of students at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School were chronically absent, administrators said at the school committee meeting on Tuesday November 18. A student in Massachusetts is considered chronically absent after missing at least 10% of enrolled days in school.

To fight absenteeism, the district implemented a new policy this year at CRLS where attendance violations could be given to students who receive five unexcused or excused absences, fifteen tardies, or a combination of the two in the same

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