The percentage of students with good attendance fell sharply between 2019 and 2023, while the share of chronically absent students more than doubled, offering further evidence of the pandemic’s ...

Thirty-one states showed improvement in rates of chronic absenteeism, or the number of students missing 10% or more school days, in the 2023-24 school year, our FutureEd tracker shows. This is good ...

When a measles outbreak hit West Texas earlier this year, school absences surged to levels far beyond the number of children ...

THE STORY FROM CITY HALL. SCHOOL OFFICIALS POINT OUT THIS IS A PROBLEM NOT JUST HERE IN THE CITY, BUT NATIONWIDE. AND EVEN THOUGH THE ABSENTEEISM RATES WENT DOWN SLIGHTLY, THERE IS STILL PLENTY OF ...

As educators nationwide grapple with stubbornly high levels of student absences since the pandemic drove schools into disarray five years ago, Oklahoma prosecutor Erik Johnson says he has the solution ...

Alarmed by stubborn patterns of persistent student absences, state lawmakers have introduced dozens of bills aiming to make school attendance a priority. Legislators from both parties in 20 states ...

The rewards are part of a more robust accountability program, which has seen great success after one year in action.

New Jersey schools had a chronic absenteeism rate of 14.9% in the 2023-24 school year. The state will be taking a closer look ...

One of Louisiana’s top judges told state education officials Thursday that he wants the court system to help tackle the growing problem of student absenteeism. Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice ...

As school absences soar, a Chronic Absenteeism Task Force will soon be created to examine the causes and develop strategies ...