Students started missing more school with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Attendance is far from fully recovered as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Research from the University of Chicago finds Chicago Public Schools students are more likely to go to class when they have ...

This article was originally published in Indiana Capital Chronicle. A new Indiana law to address chronic absenteeism in K-12 schools is now in effect, but Hoosier education officials — and at least ...

Schools are struggling to get chronic absenteeism to pre-pandemic levels, five years after it spiked during COVID-19. Chronic absenteeism is defined as missing more than 10 percent of school days.

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

East Ramapo, a district that has among the lowest test scores in the state, suffers from a significant chronic absentee rate.

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

(INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE) — A new Indiana law to address chronic absenteeism in K-12 schools is now in effect, but Hoosier education officials — and at least one state senator — say online ...

A state senator emphasized that a new Indiana law changes how schools report chronic absenteeism data but does not alter local attendance policies or penalize families for excused absences. (Getty ...