Peabody is also spending money to address its chronic-absenteeism problem. The district hired a former high school principal to serve as a reengagement coordinator to visit families’ homes and ...

Louisiana was one of just five states where absenteeism rates grew during the 2023-24 school year. Education leaders hope new ...

We explore why the problem has persisted. ... Chronic absenteeism – when students miss at least 10% of the school year – has become an epidemic in America’s schools.

“This is an urgent problem, and the recovery is not going to be fast, it’s going to be very slow. So, we have to keep the pressure on all of us to really make sure we’re working on the root causes,” ...

The 2015 passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was a turning point. Chronic absenteeism was included in the data that states were required to report to the federal government, and they ...

Chronic absenteeism is the ‘No. 1 problem’ in American K–12 education right now. It is linked to a host of problems, including mental-health issues and juvenile crime.

We attribute a lot of our growth and academics to the decrease in chronic absences," Superintendent Chandler Smith said.

Lincoln Park, with the worst kindergarten absenteeism problem in the state, is part of the ACCEL charter schools, a fast-growing multi-state charter network, that had five of Ohio’s 10-worst ...

Despite national trends of rising absenteeism, the Plano school district referred about two dozen students to truancy court last school year—down from 444 referrals in the 2017-18 school year ...

Absenteeism in schools a problem before pandemic; it's worse now In the 2020-21 academic year, more than 50% of Ohio high school students were chronically absent from school.

Oregon's chronic absenteeism rate, found to be one of the worst in the nation, got even worse last school year, new state figures show. More than 108,000 students missed so much school it put them ...

Total absenteeism in the traditional schools, including absences excused for reasons such as an illness, is even worse. Last school year, DCPS officials said, nearly 40 percent of the city’s ...