Whether they’ve missed school for physical, mental health, or other reasons, students will benefit from a trauma-informed, ...

Before the bell rings, before a single test is taken or a lesson begins, one question is crucial to the school day: Who's not here today? In classrooms from small towns to big cities, chronic ...

A teacher questioned if she was within her rights to intervene on behalf of a student who had not attended school for some time and was in danger of suffering academically as a result. Posting to the ...

Student attendance in Indiana and Michigan is improving. Unfortunately, there are still a significant number of children who are missing big chunks of the school year. Chronic absenteeism is a local ...

Maine's largest district is tackling chronic absenteeism with school-wide initiatives aimed at making attendance fun.

About 270,000 Ohio students are on individualized education programs, which identify a student’s disability and create special education plan with support they need to learn. Thirty-four percent of ...

Anyone who has ever been a student knows about the rules regarding academic misconduct, or cheating, as it is more commonly called. Plagiarism, copying others’ answers and “cheat sheets” are ...

Connecticut students have to miss 10 percent or more of school days to be considered “chronically absent” and nearly 88,000 fall into that category, with persistently high numbers over the past five ...

At campuses across Houston, school committees huddle together to discuss popsicle parties, pajama days and other ways to connect with students missing class too often. Like districts across the ...

PHOENIX — A new report found one-third of Arizona public grade school students were chronically absent from school, which is double the absence rate before the pandemic. The Helios Education ...

TEXAS, USA — This story was first published in The Texas Tribune and can be viewed here. In a typical school week, Delaila Constante makes more than a dozen calls to parents of students who are ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- New data reveals fewer JCPS students have been chronically absent this year than last year, and the district is continuing its efforts to get more kids to school. "Obviously, ...