Hedy N. Chang is the founder and the executive director of the nonprofit initiative Attendance Works, a national resource for ...

Joseph McNamara recently introduced legislation designed to tackle chronic absenteeism in Rhode Island’s schools. McNamara ...

The effects of chronic absenteeism go beyond missing lessons. The classroom environment is negatively affected as teachers ...

In-person learning is crucial to student development, but chronic absenteeism remains stubbornly high since the start of the ...

Investing in school nurses guarantees that all children have the health support they need to learn, Williamsburg school nurse ...

The grant funding is aimed at connecting students and families with supportive adults and wrap-around community resources.

There’s no shortage of explanations on offer for this surge in “chronic absenteeism,” mostly blaming the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath: lockdowns; lowered expectation; health and hardship; ...

Loudoun teens continue to face unusually high levels of anxiety, believe drugs are readily available not only in the ...

Chronic absenteeism is when a student is found missing more than 10% of school days during an academic year. Kansas reports ...

In 2018, the district had 14% chronic absenteeism. In 2022 that number was 48%. Last year the district improved its chronic ...

Arizona schools face persistent high rates of chronic absenteeism, with over a quarter of students in the largest K-8 ...

The problem of chronic absenteeism in schools is growing, according to a document released by the province earlier this ...