The current education crisis isn’t just about the need to support student academic recovery–it’s also about teacher retention. As districts nationwide struggle to keep classrooms staffed, many fail to ...

Connecticut has stronger chronic absenteeism policies than other states but is not quite hitting the mark for its five-year goal to slash student chronic absenteeism rates in half, according to a new ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -A new report on chronic absenteeism recently gave Ohio high marks for practices such as requiring schools to take attendance hourly but lower marks for investing in strategies to ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) released its 2024-25 Chronic Absenteeism Report on Thursday. The report shows Mississippi’s chronic absenteeism rate rose to 27.6%, ...

One out of three Latino kindergarteners in the Los Angeles Unified School District missed at least 10% of school days in the 2023-24 school year, making them chronically absent. A new report from the ...

Syracuse city schools have made some progress in improving chronic absenteeism, according to a new report from the New York state comptroller’s office. Still, the district has a long way to go to get ...

The COVID-19 pandemic and schools’ responses to it resulted in learning loss that reversed two decades of progress on student achievement and drove chronic absenteeism to unprecedented heights. Yet ...

PHOENIX - During a news conference in Phoenix on March 26, Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, along with Maricopa County Sheriff Jerry Sheridan, talked about the need to address ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) released the 2024-25 Chronic Absenteeism Report. According to the agency, Mississippi’s chronic absenteeism rate rose to 27.6%, ...