Many of the ways we in California use data about chronic absenteeism leave educators feeling shamed or blamed. There is a better way to separate the signal from the noise, and learn from the ...

Last spring, Alabama’s DeKalb County Schools invited local physicians to lunch. The reason: Too many students were missing ...

Several members of a new study group to examine Louisiana's high rates of student absenteeism pushed back this week against proposals to tie school district funding to attendance, warning that doing ...

After nearly doubling during the pandemic, the rates of chronic absenteeism in K-12 schools are finally showing steady signs of improvement. A student is considered chronically absent when they miss ...

With California struggling to lower student absences since the pandemic, state educational leaders have pledged to reduce chronic absenteeism by 50% over the next five years. California State ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – September is Attendance Awareness Month, and the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) is looking to promote the benefits of students maintaining regular attendance at ...

District administrators shared the strategies they are considering and heard what board members want to see when it comes to reducing chronic absenteeism.

Some days, it takes Elyazar Holiday two hours and four buses to travel the 20 miles from his home on the far west side of Detroit to his school on the edge of the east side of the city. Principal ...

By Riley Board for the Portland Press Herald. Broadcast version by Kathryn Carley for Maine News Service reporting for the Solutions Journalism Network-Public News Service Collaboration On Dec. 1, ...

Arlington Public Schools leaders hope to return to a lower, pre-Covid level of student absenteeism by 2030. “That last year before the pandemic, 2018-19, we were around [an] 8% rate. We have been ...

Birmingham City Schools has significantly reduced chronic absenteeism, with new initiatives helping students catch up academically during intercession.