The percentage of students with good attendance fell sharply between 2019 and 2023, while the share of chronically absent students more than doubled, offering further evidence of the pandemic’s ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. [MUSIC PLAYING] NINA MOINI: It's our top story this afternoon. Minnesota lawmakers will begin considering legislation to help make sure kids are showing up ...

Chronic student absenteeism remains a significant challenge in the nation’s schools. While the percentage of chronically absent students has declined from its peak of 28% in 2021-22 — when it nearly ...

Chronic absenteeism—missing over 10 percent of school days—remains a persistent challenge for too many districts. Reducing it is complicated but badly needed. Our organization, EveryDay Labs, partners ...

The Indiana Department of Education released chronic absenteeism data on Wednesday. Last year John Keller, Indiana Department of Education’s chief academic officer, asked the Indiana State Board of ...

Fewer Hoosier students are missing large chunks of school, but chronic absenteeism rates still remain well above pre-pandemic levels, according to new data presented Wednesday to the State Board of ...

The share of Louisiana students who regularly miss school dropped 2 percentage points last year — a notable improvement after absenteeism rates climbed two years in a row. The state’s chronic ...

The day education leaders, researchers and advocates have feared is here: It is now clear that student attendance will not return to pre-pandemic rates on its own. The number of students missing more ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A month-old Indiana law targeting chronic absenteeism in K-12 schools aims to collect data on student attendance to better understand and address the issue. The law defines ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat Indiana. A third of Hoosier high school seniors missed 18 or more days of school last year in Indiana, which has been seeking solutions to persistently ...

NORWALK — Chronic absenteeism across the city’s public schools largely dropped last school year from the year prior, but school officials said more can be done. Chronic absenteeism, defined as a ...