Since hitting a record high in 2022, national chronic absenteeism rates have dropped modestly — by about five percentage ...

Chronic absenteeism in U.S. schools is declining from pandemic-era highs but remains well above pre-COVID levels. States like ...

Director of Attendance and Social Services Kim Legg told board members that the chronic absenteeism rate declined by nearly ...

The results come as districts enter a new school year determined to drive down chronic absenteeism rates that shot up as ...

She said that in the 2023-2024 school year the county was at 20.58%. At the end of the 2024-2025 school year that had ...

With school attendance rates up the Kanawha County Schools, we checked in to see what they’ve done to keep chronic ...

RAND researchers estimated about 22% of K-12 students nationally were chronically absent last school year. Chronic absenteeism is up considerably from the typical 15% range before the pandemic.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) announced on Tuesday that Virginia is leading the nation in cutting chronic absenteeism in schools ...

District leaders say cutting absences is among their most pressing challenges. Many students don't think it's such a big deal ...

About 30% of California students were considered chronically absent — nearly 1.8 million students — for the 2020-21 school ...

Virginia has been recognized by Attendance Works, a national leader on school attendance, for progress in reducing chronic ...