A new state task force will examine the causes of chronic absenteeism and recommend strategies to improve student attendance.

Chronic absenteeism has fallen significantly since the ALL in VA plan included funding to encourage school districts to offer ...

For Greg Watson, student success family liaison for the Lead-Deadwood School District, tackling absenteeism in the district ...

With chronic absenteeism up since the pandemic, a report highlights 11 reasons why students are missing school.

Productivity loss due to absenteeism is a serious and growing challenge. In the United States, the annual cost to employers for time lost due to accidents is almost $100 billion, and other unscheduled ...

Legislation sponsored by Senator Shirley K. Turner and Senator Angela V. McKnight to create the Chronic Absenteeism Task ...

Students in Massachusetts public schools are returning to classrooms after an alarming surge in chronic absenteeism in the wake of the pandemic, recently-published state figures from the current ...

Gabrielle Pobega knows kindergarten is more than just kids coloring, playing and singing songs, so she made sure her daughter made it to kindergarten at Lincoln Park Academy in Cleveland every day.

Readers discuss the reasons for the spike since the pandemic and how to lure students back. The pandemic changed families’ lives and the culture of education: “Our relationship with school became ...

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 ...