As CPS grapples with absenteeism crisis, a new study shows what may help

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

They examined 3.3 million text messages on chronic absenteeism. Here are 4 big findings

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

To tackle chronic absenteeism, this high school lets students lead

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 ...

Positive school climate tied to better student attendance

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

Two-thirds of schools struggle with high absenteeism after pandemic

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This Paterson school struggles with high absenteeism, poverty — and potential gang threat

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 ...
The Enterprise

Is absenteeism really worse at Brockton High? We compared it to 8 schools to find out

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 ...