One of the most important lessons from attendance data is that it’s predictive. For individual students, attendance rates strongly predict academic success and graduation. Across age groups at scale, ...

Many of the ways we in California use data about chronic absenteeism leave educators feeling shamed or blamed. There is a better way to separate the signal from the noise, and learn from the ...

By Riley Board for the Portland Press Herald. Broadcast version by Kathryn Carley for Maine News Service reporting for the Solutions Journalism Network-Public News Service Collaboration On Dec. 1, ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — Chronic absenteeism remains a problem at schools nationwide, but a new initiative at Trotwood Madison is trying to make sure kids return to school. District administrators credit ...

Last spring, Alabama’s DeKalb County Schools invited local physicians to lunch. The reason: Too many students were missing ...

At first glance, the pledge by Gov. Mike DeWine and the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce to reduce chronic absenteeism by 50% ...

Maryland lawmakers are seeking solutions for how to keep kids in school, as thousands of students are reported absent from the classroom for significant portions of the year. A bill sponsored by ...

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 ...

Some days, it takes Elyazar Holiday two hours and four buses to travel the 20 miles from his home on the far west side of Detroit to his school on the edge of the east side of the city. Principal ...

Alaska has some of the highest rates of chronic absenteeism in the nation — state data shows that more than 44,000 students were considered chronically absent from public schools last year.

TULSA, Okla. — Union Public Schools reduced chronic absenteeism during the 2024-25 school year by 1.35 percent, or around 200 students, following the launch of the “Be Present to Win” campaign. Union ...