THE STORY FROM CITY HALL. SCHOOL OFFICIALS POINT OUT THIS IS A PROBLEM NOT JUST HERE IN THE CITY, BUT NATIONWIDE. AND EVEN THOUGH THE ABSENTEEISM RATES WENT DOWN SLIGHTLY, THERE IS STILL PLENTY OF ...

Students who are missing too much school might be facing mental health issues, poverty and housing insecurity — issues that might seem daunting if not impossible for the school system to tackle by ...

The Baltimore City Council is taking steps toward addressing the root causes of school absenteeism, a problem that plagues Baltimore at a far higher rate than any other county in the state. Among the ...

In the new school year, classrooms across Cleveland may be seeing half of their desks empty. In the last school year, every day across Cleveland, nearly 56% of students were chronically absent, which ...

The word "crisis" is not an exaggeration as the number of kids chronically absent in WCSD is shocking; however, unless you are in the education system, you may not realize just how significant this ...

Chronic student absenteeism – defined as missing at least 10% of days in a given school year – has skyrocketed across the nation in the wake of the pandemic. In Delaware, 23% of students statewide ...

Although chronic absenteeism has decreased in most states since the end of the pandemic, rates are still much higher than pre-pandemic levels. More than 14.6 million students—about twice the ...

ONE STUDENT AT A TIME. IN FALL RIVER, THE WORK TO GET AND KEEP KIDS IN THE CLASSROOM STARTS WELL BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL. HI, IT’S MISS TAIWO CALLING FROM THE GREEN SCHOOL. IT’S STILL SUMMER ...

Chronic absenteeism remains a nationwide challenge, despite efforts to return to normalcy post-pandemic. And the data suggests we are far from solving it. Right now, one in four classroom seats sits ...

BRIDGEPORT — City school officials are hoping to reduce the district's growing rate of chronic absenteeism with a task force that will explore strategies to draw students back to the classroom. The ...

State lawmakers are trying to understand why children are missing class but now want to make it so schools cannot suspend or expel students for being chronically absent or habitually truant. The ...