As schools work to reverse spiking rates of student absences, the most recent data from states suggest that they made some progress in the most recent school year—but not enough to return attendance ...

On August 21, AEI cohosted an event with Attendance Works and EdTrust in which two panels discussed the enduring problem of chronic absenteeism and explored what state and local leaders can do to ...

Ninety percent of students showed up to school on a typical day this fall, according to a new federal survey, a figure that experts say remains too low amid national concern around a rise in chronic ...

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Chronic student absenteeism – defined as missing at least 10% of days in a given school year – has skyrocketed across the nation in the wake of the pandemic. In Delaware, 23% of students statewide ...