Since hitting a record high in 2022, national chronic absenteeism rates have dropped modestly — by about five percentage ...

About 30% of California students were considered chronically absent — nearly 1.8 million students — for the 2020-21 school ...

RAND researchers estimated about 22% of K-12 students nationally were chronically absent last school year. Chronic absenteeism is up considerably from the typical 15% range before the pandemic.

The results come as districts enter a new school year determined to drive down chronic absenteeism rates that shot up as ...

The district is focusing on wellness, literacy, problem-solving, math and readiness for college and career — with interim ...

Making school attendance a state-level priority and building school-family relationships are among strategies showing results.

She said that in the 2023-2024 school year the county was at 20.58%. At the end of the 2024-2025 school year that had ...

Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) announced on Tuesday that Virginia is leading the nation in cutting chronic absenteeism in schools ...

With the help of the Johns Hopkins' nonprofit Medicine for the Greater Good, two teachers became the first educators in the ...

Reducing the number of chronically absent students has been important for Kanawha County Schools."Coming in last year, the ...

The California Department of Education is rolling out new guidance to help schools reduce chronic absenteeism. Brady Halbleib ...