THE STORY FROM CITY HALL. SCHOOL OFFICIALS POINT OUT THIS IS A PROBLEM NOT JUST HERE IN THE CITY, BUT NATIONWIDE. AND EVEN THOUGH THE ABSENTEEISM RATES WENT DOWN SLIGHTLY, THERE IS STILL PLENTY OF ...

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

The Baltimore City Council is taking steps toward addressing the root causes of school absenteeism, a problem that plagues Baltimore at a far higher rate than any other county in the state. Among the ...

Address the root causes of chronic absenteeism, boost student success, and build belonging across campus with the Chronic Absenteeism ...

State lawmakers are trying to understand why children are missing class but now want to make it so schools cannot suspend or expel students for being chronically absent or habitually truant. The ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. [MUSIC PLAYING] NINA MOINI: It's our top story this afternoon. Minnesota lawmakers will begin considering legislation to help make sure kids are showing up ...

Empty seats have become a common sight in our nation’s classrooms. Students are missing school at record-high rates–not because they don’t want to be there, but because significant barriers are ...

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 ...

Louisiana’s absenteeism rate is moving in the wrong direction — up. Last school year, nearly 1 in 4 Louisiana students were chronically absent. It was the second straight year that the absenteeism ...

In 2024, 27% of Washington students were chronically absent — slightly above the national average of 24%. Those few percentage points represent thousands of students and years of potential challenges.

Tiwana Robinson’s grandchildren don’t want to go to school. “They’re being bullied in school, picked on,” she said on a recent afternoon, waiting to pick up her pre-kindergartener at PS 36 in West ...

More students have been skipping school since the COVID-19 pandemic, and Georgia lawmakers are looking into the problem. A leading state Senate Republican announced Tuesday that he is forming a ...