It has been over five years since the US shut down for COVID, and in many ways, the country has moved past the pandemic. For US schools, however, the pandemic’s toll has not passed so quickly. Student ...

While most schools deem students chronically absent after they miss at least 10% of school days, poor attendance habits may ...

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%, ...

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 ...

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 ...