It was the last Friday before winter break at H.D. Woodson High School in the eastern corner of Washington, D.C. — historically one of the toughest days of the year for attendance. School team leads ...

More than one in five students in Massachusetts are chronically absent from school, state officials said, a number they say has remained persistently troubling since the pandemic began in 2020. State ...

While urban and even suburban school districts across New Jersey continue to grapple with a major, disturbing fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic — high rates of chronic absenteeism — Paterson's School 6 ...

BROCKTON — A 17-year-old high school senior lost her primary caretaker — her grandmother — to COVID during the height of the pandemic. That left her to care for her 10-year-old sister, including ...