The top reasons students miss class are due to illness (67%), feeling down or experiencing anxiety (10%), oversleeping (9%), ...

Students in grades K-3 are about twice as likely to change school districts, linking low attendance to increased academic disruptions in early grades.

Illinois State Board of Education recently published its annual Illinois Report Card. The report card contains data on things like standardized test scores, graduation rates, and chronic absenteeism.

Over a quarter of Ohio students regularly miss school — and education leaders say that's a serious problem. According to the 2024-2025 Ohio Department of Education and Workforce state report card, the ...

Students filmed and edited their own attendance PSA as part of a hands-on project to address chronic absenteeism at schools.

Last spring, Alabama’s DeKalb County Schools invited local physicians to lunch. The reason: Too many students were missing ...

Thousands of K-12 students in Detroit consistently miss days of school. Chronic absenteeism is defined as missing at least 10% of school days – or 18 in a 180-day academic year. In Detroit, chronic ...

Many of the ways we in California use data about chronic absenteeism leave educators feeling shamed or blamed. There is a better way to separate the signal from the noise, and learn from the ...

Amid a statewide decline in students missing school, Illinois is launching a Chronic Absence Task Force to study strategies to further reduce chronic absenteeism across all grade levels, state ...

Schools are struggling to get chronic absenteeism to pre-pandemic levels, five years after it spiked during COVID-19. Chronic absenteeism is defined as missing more than 10 percent of school days.

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — Chronic absenteeism remains a problem at schools nationwide, but a new initiative at Trotwood Madison is trying to make sure kids return to school. District administrators credit ...

Michigan cannot improve its education system until students are actually in school, but chronic absenteeism isn’t simply a policy problem; it's a student support problem. Until we address the barriers ...