Karen Mansfield did a thorough job clarifying the mountain of problems and solutions concerning student absenteeism in her story in Sunday’s newspaper. There is another aspect of this problem that ...

Your “Today in Ohio” podcast recently addressed cleveland.com’s Oct. 5 report that a quarter of Ohio students are chronically absent. I looked at four school districts in my vicinity. Two of them, ...

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NO ONE WAS HURT AT THE SCHOOL DURING THAT SHELTER IN PLACE. OUR STATE’S LARGEST SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS STRUGGLED WITH CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOW. SO NOW A NEW SYSTEM AT MANZANO HIGH SCHOOL ...

Students in the Rancho Santa Fe School District have been racking up unexcused absences over the last few school years—time out of the classroom for family vacations, trips to Disneyland or taking an ...

Chronic student absenteeism in Rhode Island remains higher than before the pandemic, affecting 22.5% of students who have missed at least 10% of the school year. Common reasons for absences include ...

This refers to an article in the July 21 edition regarding a meeting to be held in Lafayette on Sept. 8 on absenteeism. The meeting is being called by Chief Justice John Weimer of the Louisiana ...

I read with interest Patrick Wall's interview with Ronnie Morris, the current president of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, on the subject of chronic absenteeism in Louisiana ...

Tulsa Public Schools sent a letter to parents notifying them of the new consequences for chronic absenteeism. “Students who miss more than 10% of their learning time are considered chronically absent.

On Nov. 30, The News reported that 36.8 percent of Buffalo teachers miss more than 18 days of school per year whereas in Indianapolis, only 3.1 percent miss that many days. How is this possible?

It’s been one year since the Sioux Falls School District was awarded a $1.5 million, three-year grant from the South Dakota Department of Education to address chronic absenteeism at six schools in the ...