Chicago middle and high schoolers with fewer absences had higher test scores, the University of Chicago Consortium on School ...

The biggest problem in education is that kids aren’t showing up to school. Last year, 26 percent of students missed a month of class or more, leading to dramatic declines in academic performance.

Illinois State Board of Education recently published its annual Illinois Report Card. The report card contains data on things like standardized test scores, graduation rates, and chronic absenteeism.

TOOL IN THE FIGHT TO KEEP STUDENTS IN THE CLASSROOM, MAKES ITS WAY TO THE OMAHA METRO. AT THE SAME TIME, THE NEBRASKA EDUCATION COMMISSIONER WANTS TO CURB ABSENTEEISM IN THE CLASSROOM IN HALF BY 2030.

Even as Louisiana rises in national education rankings, one big challenge threatens to hinder the state’s recent progress: the large number of students who regularly miss school. After watching the ...

Fewer Michigan kids are missing a substantial amount of school, according to new data on chronic absenteeism released Wednesday, but the numbers remain higher than before the COVID pandemic. Last year ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — More than a quarter of all students in Ohio were chronically absent from school last year, according to the Ohio Department of Education. This has created challenges not just for ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - Schools across Arizona are grappling with a significant rise in chronic absenteeism, with more than 30% of students missing at least 10% of the school year. This issue is ...

Collier County Public School leaders have found a winning strategy to combat chronic absenteeism, achieving the lowest percentage of chronically absent students in the state. Their success has even ...

SALT LAKE CITY — It's time again for Utah kids to go back to school. But in recent years, attending class has been hit-or-miss for a growing number of students in the state's K-12 schools. Chronic ...

Our kids don’t want to go to school everyday. If this is a newsflash for you, I’d suggest you ask a child their thoughts. In the history of schools, this has been a truism. If we could ask little ...

Anna Alejo is CBS News Colorado's Executive Producer of Community Impact. She works with the news team to develop more grassroots relationships and original content at the neighborhood and local ...