Kindergarten is an important time in a child's life, during which children acquire and strengthen the skills needed to ...

Changes in state law require Ohio schools to notify parents sooner about students' attendance. It also does away with medically excused absences.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The number of absent students has nearly doubled since 2020. (Anastasia Babenko/Getty Images) (Anastasia Babenko/Getty Images) And ...

Students in Massachusetts public schools are returning to classrooms after an alarming surge in chronic absenteeism in the wake of the pandemic, recently-published state figures from the current ...

When employees are unwell or juggling too much, elevated rates of absenteeism are one signal for organizations to look for. And that signal comes at a cost for organizations. The Centers for Disease ...

Chronic absenteeism has long been cited as one of the most severe lasting impacts of COVID-era school shutdowns. New research indicates that the problem is sticking around for groups of students ...

More than five years after the pandemic threw schools off course, the latest evidence suggests that progress toward solving the nation’s attendance problem is slowing down well short of the finish ...

More than 1 in 5 Louisiana students struggled with attendance last school year, according to new state data, which shows that ...

Maryland's superintendent of schools announced on Thursday that the state recorded a four-year drop in the chronic ...

Maryland’s chronic absenteeism rate dropped slightly last school year, but the state fell far short of its own goal of cutting the rate in half, education officials announced Thursday. About 22.8% of ...

Chronic absenteeism has been an acute concern nationwide since the pandemic. More than a quarter of Colorado students — 27.5% — were chronically absent in 2025-26, state data shows. That’s down from ...