More than five years after the dawn of COVID-19, chronic absenteeism in U.S. schools remains high — at last count, it ...

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

Nearly every parent pointed to illness as the main reason their child missed school. Since the pandemic, both cultural norms and school rules have shifted toward greater caution. Many districts now ...

Chronic absenteeism remains a big problem for American students, a new report from RAND researchers shows. It remains more common now than it was before the pandemic upended school life a few years ...

With chronic absenteeism up since the pandemic, a report highlights 11 reasons why students are missing school.

Since hitting a record high in 2022, national chronic absenteeism rates have dropped modestly — by about five percentage points — according to the most recent available data, but still remain ...

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 ...

San Antonio City Council launches a free bus pass initiative for middle and high school students to combat chronic ...

A University of Chicago study released Tuesday finds an even stronger link between attendance and academic performance ...

Legislation sponsored by Senator Shirley K. Turner and Senator Angela V. McKnight to create the Chronic Absenteeism Task ...

Is it mental health? Transportation issues? Something about the school climate? A new task force will look into the state's ...