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

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

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 ...

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond announced California is on track to reduce chronic absenteeism by ...

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.

Reducing the number of chronically absent students has been important for Kanawha County Schools."Coming in last year, the year before we were at 20.58% and las ...

Virginia has been recognized by Attendance Works, a national leader on school attendance, for progress in reducing chronic ...

The Oceanside Unified School District in California has seen a significant drop in chronic absenteeism rates since expanding ...

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