Chronic absenteeism skyrocketed during the pandemic, creating major challenges for teachers and school administrators eager to bring students back to regular classroom routines. But for many schools, ...

Arlington Public Schools leaders hope to return to a lower, pre-Covid level of student absenteeism by 2030. “That last year before the pandemic, 2018-19, we were around [an] 8% rate. We have been ...

Two in five charter school students in Ohio are chronically absent, nearly 15 percentage points more than the average rate in traditional public schools, new state data shows. According to Ohio ...

Oregon’s rate of student chronic absenteeism remains one of the highest in the United States, new data from the state’s Department of Education shows, with 33% of public school students in the state ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated to correct information about the state’s chronic absenteeism rate for the 2018-19 school year. School attendance rates and chronic absenteeism in Colorado took a ...

The effects of chronic absenteeism, when students miss at least 10% of the school year, are many — from falling behind grade level to creating gaps in learning and eventually a rise in students ...