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Maleeha Chida, an attorney who is an Equal Justice Works Fellow at\u00a0Advocates for Children<\/a>, said the city should continue to explore additional avenues to help students, such as creating flexible school schedules, connecting them to mental health providers, and hiring trained behavioral specialists to coordinate plans to gradually re-reintroduce students to the classroom.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cStudents who are facing school avoidance require significant supports and interventions to be able to return to school, and much more will be needed to address the needs of this student population,\u201d Chida wrote in an email.<\/p>","":null,"settings":""}}],"relationships":{"":null,"article_type":[83],"topics":false,"misc_topics":false},"misc":{"search_results":{"":null,"excerpt":"","featured_image":15428}}},"yoast_head":"\nNYC to overhaul attendance rules, requiring a \u2018school avoidance liaison\u2019 at every school - Advocates for Children of New York<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/es\/articles\/nyc-to-overhaul-attendance-rules-requiring-a-school-avoidance-liaison-at-every-school\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NYC to overhaul attendance rules, requiring a \u2018school avoidance liaison\u2019 at every school - 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