Alaska has some of the highest rates of chronic absenteeism in the nation — state data shows that more than 44,000 students ...

THE STORY FROM CITY HALL. SCHOOL OFFICIALS POINT OUT THIS IS A PROBLEM NOT JUST HERE IN THE CITY, BUT NATIONWIDE. AND EVEN THOUGH THE ABSENTEEISM RATES WENT DOWN SLIGHTLY, THERE IS STILL PLENTY OF ...

Proposed law would require Utah’s education board to boost data collection practices — while finding solutions to chronic ...

The Baltimore City Council is taking steps toward addressing the root causes of school absenteeism, a problem that plagues Baltimore at a far higher rate than any other county in the state. Among the ...

With thousands of Baltimore students recently reported absent for a third or more of the school year, the City Council is taking action on chronic absenteeism. Councilmember Mark Conway is “taking the ...

In the new school year, classrooms across Cleveland may be seeing half of their desks empty. In the last school year, every day across Cleveland, nearly 56% of students were chronically absent, which ...

State lawmakers are trying to understand why children are missing class but now want to make it so schools cannot suspend or expel students for being chronically absent or habitually truant. The ...

In 2024, 27% of Washington students were chronically absent — slightly above the national average of 24%. Those few percentage points represent thousands of students and years of potential challenges.

State leaders, including Sen. John Kennedy, address Georgia’s rising student absenteeism with new attendance policies and a study committee. kali9 Getty Images More students have been skipping school ...

Louisiana’s absenteeism rate is moving in the wrong direction — up. Last school year, nearly 1 in 4 Louisiana students were chronically absent. It was the second straight year that the absenteeism ...

Several members of a new study group to examine Louisiana's high rates of student absenteeism pushed back this week against proposals to tie school district funding to attendance, warning that doing ...