Chronic absenteeism skyrocketed during the pandemic, creating major challenges for teachers and school administrators eager to bring students back to regular classroom routines. But for many schools, ...

New data released by the Iowa Department of Education shows chronic absenteeism has dropped in the state by roughly 5 percent. This data comes almost two years after a new state law went into effect ...

Chronic absenteeism has reached historic levels. Transparent, school-level data can help parents and communities turn the tide.

It has been over five years since the US shut down for COVID, and in many ways, the country has moved past the pandemic. For US schools, however, the pandemic’s toll has not passed so quickly. Student ...

Two in five charter school students in Ohio are chronically absent, nearly 15 percentage points more than the average rate in traditional public schools, new state data shows. According to Ohio ...

As Louisiana continues to grapple with high rates of student absenteeism, a lawmaker wants to push districts to tackle the issue by tying funding to student attendance so that schools with low ...

Oregon’s rate of student chronic absenteeism remains one of the highest in the United States, new data from the state’s Department of Education shows, with 33% of public school students in the state ...

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Editor’s note: This story was updated to correct information about the state’s chronic absenteeism rate for the 2018-19 school year. School attendance rates and chronic absenteeism in Colorado took a ...