Schools have absence data by 8 a.m. What's missing is the follow-up: the call home, the logged reason, the pattern flagged before it becomes chronic. Done by hand, that work runs ten or more hours a week for one staff member, and it stops the moment that person is out. This white paper examines why attendance intervention breaks down at scale, and how the August Attendance Assistant runs the follow-up loop automatically so the intervention window stays open every morning.
