In most states, 12th graders have the highest rates of chronic absenteeism, often far exceeding state averages. In Mississippi, for example, the overall absenteeism rate was 24%, but among seniors, it ...

Chronic absenteeism was a serious issue prior to Covid-19, but pandemic disruptions added new factors – and compounded others ...

Draft legislation obtained by The CA shows how the "Tennessee Public School Accountability Act" may be used to appoint a ...

A recent in-depth brief from the Manhattan Institute, penned by 50CAN’s William E. Simon Policy Fellow Danyela Egorov, ...

Although the rate of chronic absenteeism in Frederick County Public Schools has not returned to its pre-pandemic rate, the school district’s average dropped about 5 percentage points — from 25 ...

Mitchell Middle School continues to be an area of focus for the issue. Childs said when efforts to address the absenteeism ...

Students are considered chronically absent when they miss at least 10% of the school year – and the latest data shows one in ...

Too many New York City public school kids are missing too much school and that’s a very big problem. So why, then, is hardly ...

In some schools which resign themselves to low attendance rate during such periods, lessons are even cancelled, thus indirectly encouraging group absenteeism. To counteract this, most schools have ...

It's a solution that advocates say school administrators are sleeping on. Could pushing school start times to later in the ...

In Texas, the absenteeism rate was 1.98% on average in January and February 2024, compared to 4.44% in the same months this ...