Just 13% of districts studied by a Johns Hopkins center were able to rebound to pre-pandemic levels by the 2024-25 school ...

School districts still struggling with stubbornly high chronic absenteeism would do well to take a granular look at their ...

This year, at least six states enacted laws trying to reduce the number of students chronically absent from school. The ...

As educators nationwide grapple with stubbornly high levels of student absences since the pandemic drove schools into disarray five years ago, Oklahoma prosecutor Erik Johnson says he has the solution ...

At least six states enacted legislation this year aimed at lowering the number of chronically absent students.

Alarmed by stubborn patterns of persistent student absences, state lawmakers have introduced dozens of bills aiming to make school attendance a priority. Legislators from both parties in 20 states ...

This report documents the associations between teacher and student absenteeism across grade levels and before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic to understand whether teacher absences represent ...

Concern over student attendance has intensified since the pandemic, when chronic absenteeism rose sharply and has now only partially receded. Using daily attendance records covering all students in ...

School absenteeism is a major concern across Canada—and beyond. As researchers with the Canadian School Attendance Partnership, we have been exploring this issue for a few years, motivated by concerns ...

Nearly half of students in Tucson Unified School District are chronically absent, and state data shows the problem is getting ...