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 ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

Chronic absenteeism in U.S. schools is declining from pandemic-era highs but remains well above pre-COVID levels. States like ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va (WCHS) — Reducing the number of chronically absent students has been important for Kanawha County Schools.

Consistent attendance lays the foundation for a strong path towards graduation. While chronic absenteeism has a rate of about ...

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

Spiking rates of chronic absenteeism Before the pandemic, about 1 in 7 students nationwide—8 million—were chronically absent, data collected by the U.S. Department of Education show.