Since hitting a record high in 2022, national chronic absenteeism rates have dropped modestly — by about five percentage points — according to the most recent available data, but still remain ...

Chronic absenteeism — defined by the U.S. Department of Education as missing 10% or more of the school year — has emerged as one of the most persistent and complex challenges facing public education ...

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 ...

Almost 180,000 pupils are set for a life of unemployment due to 'troubling' school absence rates, a think tank has warned. The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) said that, without intervention, the high ...