In New York City, a stunning four in 10 students — some 353,000 — were chronically absent, for the last full school year ...

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 ...

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; ...

Leyden Community High School Dist. 212 board members unanimously agreed to apply for an Illinois State Board of Education grant to help address the post-pandemic uptick in students missing classes.

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

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 ...

New data reveals that more than half of Baltimore City students were chronically absent from schools last year.

Explore ASCL President John Camp's concerns about increasing absenteeism in schools and the imperative to reshape the ...

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