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

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

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

Nearly 1 in 5 Long Island students missed 18 or more days of school during the last academic year — a chronic level of ...

Advocates for Basic Legal Equality's SUCCESS program is a partnership with the Clark County Juvenile Court and Springfield ...

School systems are hoping to find answers in data, and in strategies to strengthen ties between students and educators.

As bad as teacher attendance is in some West Virginia counties, there are many areas where student attendance is even ...

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

How do schools decrease the rate at which students are absent if they have to cut programs and staff at the same time?

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

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

Of the eight districts surveyed — from Highland Park to Round Lake, and from Barrington to Waukegan — the statistics mirrored the national trend, with absenteeism higher than it was ...