On any given school day, up to 40 percent of teachers in New Jersey’s Camden City Public Schools are absent from their classrooms. Such a high figure probably would not stand out in parts of the ...

Teacher absence negatively affects student achievement. Researchers have found that every 10 absences lowers mathematics achievement by the same amount as having a teacher with one year to two ...

Nearly half of Los Angeles Unified students — more than 200,000 children — have been chronically absent this school year, meaning they have missed at least 9% of the academic year, according ...

NEWTOWN - Jessica Braun feels a void. A four-year member of the Newtown High School drama club and choral group, the 17-year-old senior's excitement about her last few months at the school has ...

A new report suggests that 44 percent of teachers in public schools are either chronically or frequently absent ...

Kids don’t do as well when teachers are absent for more than 10 days in a school year, according to research cited by the U.S. Department of Education, and districts end up spending money to pay ...

The San Francisco Chronicle has reported that the average instructor was absent 11 school days during the 2013-2014 year, while the typical student missed fewer than seven days.

As Chalkbeat reported last year, “Even as students have taken higher-level courses, their G.P.A.s have steadily risen — from an average of 2.68 in 1990 to 2.94 in 2000, 3.0 in 2009 and 3.11 in ...

Teacher's absence upsets students. By News-Times, The (Danbury, CT) ... Several parents have objected to the timing, saying it will disrupt the students' final year. "Why couldn't ...