The Remote School Attendance Strategy (RSAS): Why invest in a strategy that reduces attendance?

• Published in: The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education
• Main Authors: John Guenther, Samuel Osborne, Stephen Corrie, Lester-Irabinna Rigney, Kevin Lowe
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, The University of Queensland 2022
• Subjects: attendance; remote education; policy interventions; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education; success; Special aspects of education; LC8-6691; Abbott; First Nations
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.55146/ajie.v51i2.35; https://doaj.org/article/3e9cb9305c484e999d7517ae880bfd6f

In late 2013, under the leadership of Prime Minister Abbott, the Australian Government announced a new policy designed to increase attendance rates in remote community schools—the Remote School Attendance Strategy (RSAS). The model assumed that employing local people in the program, which was design...