Students started missing more school with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Attendance is far from fully recovered as ...

Chicago middle and high schoolers with fewer absences had higher test scores, the University of Chicago Consortium on School ...

More than five years after the dawn of COVID-19, chronic absenteeism in U.S. schools remains high — at last count, it ...

East Ramapo, a district that has among the lowest test scores in the state, suffers from a significant chronic absentee rate.

Research from the University of Chicago finds Chicago Public Schools students are more likely to go to class when they have ...

Chronic absenteeism remains a big problem for American students, a new report from RAND researchers shows. It remains more common now than it was before the pandemic upended school life a few years ...

Illinois State Board of Education recently published its annual Illinois Report Card. The report card contains data on things like standardized test scores, graduation rates, and chronic absenteeism.

Amid a statewide decline in students missing school, Illinois is launching a Chronic Absence Task Force to study strategies to further reduce chronic absenteeism across all grade levels, state ...

Is it mental health? Transportation issues? Something about the school climate? A new task force will look into the state's ...

A new state task force will examine the causes of chronic absenteeism and recommend strategies to improve student attendance.

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) released its 2024-25 Chronic Absenteeism Report on Thursday. The report shows Mississippi’s chronic absenteeism rate rose to 27.6%, ...

Legislation sponsored by Senator Shirley K. Turner and Senator Angela V. McKnight to create the Chronic Absenteeism Task ...