BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) released its 2024-25 Chronic Absenteeism Report on Thursday. The report shows Mississippi’s chronic absenteeism rate rose to 27.6%, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -A new report on chronic absenteeism recently gave Ohio high marks for practices such as requiring schools to take attendance hourly but lower marks for investing in strategies to ...

A Stand for Children Oregon analysis finds the state’s short elementary school year makes chronic absenteeism more consequential for its students than others nationwide. The analysis by the education ...

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, ...