THE STORY FROM CITY HALL. SCHOOL OFFICIALS POINT OUT THIS IS A PROBLEM NOT JUST HERE IN THE CITY, BUT NATIONWIDE. AND EVEN THOUGH THE ABSENTEEISM RATES WENT DOWN SLIGHTLY, THERE IS STILL PLENTY OF ...

Students who are missing too much school might be facing mental health issues, poverty and housing insecurity — issues that might seem daunting if not impossible for the school system to tackle by ...

The Baltimore City Council is taking steps toward addressing the root causes of school absenteeism, a problem that plagues Baltimore at a far higher rate than any other county in the state. Among the ...

A silent crisis is unfolding in our schools and impacting millions of California students: chronic absenteeism. The consequences of unchecked absenteeism are severe and far-reaching. It starts ...

In the new school year, classrooms across Cleveland may be seeing half of their desks empty. In the last school year, every day across Cleveland, nearly 56% of students were chronically absent, which ...

State lawmakers are trying to understand why children are missing class but now want to make it so schools cannot suspend or expel students for being chronically absent or habitually truant. The ...

Just one year later, after implementing an artificial intelligence solution for tracking attendance and contacting parents, ...

BRIDGEPORT — City school officials are hoping to reduce the district's growing rate of chronic absenteeism with a task force that will explore strategies to draw students back to the classroom. The ...

ONE STUDENT AT A TIME. IN FALL RIVER, THE WORK TO GET AND KEEP KIDS IN THE CLASSROOM STARTS WELL BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL. HI, IT’S MISS TAIWO CALLING FROM THE GREEN SCHOOL. IT’S STILL SUMMER ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A photo of Los Angeles Superintendent Alberto Carvalho. A week before classes at Los Angeles Unified began earlier this month, ...

Teacher absenteeism is a persistent issue in Kenyan schools, undermining the quality and consistency of education. The primary reported cause is Sickness, which accounts for a substantial 55.70% of ...