The least disruption (25 minutes) is found in honors-level courses, because they typically have fewer or no inclusion student mandates.
The influx of students mandated digestible rules.
Last summer, about 80percentt of elementary and middle school students mandated to attend summer school showed up citywide, but the number was lower during the first week of class.
As a result, 66.8percentt of the students mandated to attend summer school in 1999 were promoted, even though only 57.3percentt passed the reading and math tests.
Roughly $100 million is to cover rising food costs, increases in charter school enrollment and tuition for special education students mandated to attend private schools.
So far, 24percentt of the students mandated to attend in third through eighth grade have not showed up, and half of the high school students required to attend are absent.
That program ended in chaos when board officials discovered that 8,800 of the 35,344 students mandated to attend never showed up, and that 8,600 others had been assigned by mistake.
Although Schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy refused to release citywide attendance figures yesterday, he hinted in an interview that many of the 190,853 students mandated to attend five weeks of summer school or face repeating a grade were not yet showing up for classes.
BUSINESS DAY, PAGE C1 Empty Seats in Schools As summer classes began in New York, the schools chancellor hinted that many of the 190,853 students mandated to attend the five week session were missing.
One was with young adults in the work-place [ 25], and two were with college students (intercollegiate athletes [ 26] and students mandated for drinking infractions [ 27]).
