When Dania Torres knocks on a student’s door, she doesn’t know if she’ll find a kid sick with the flu, a teen wrestling with substance use, a parent reeling from domestic violence, or a family ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chronic absenteeism has been an ongoing challenge for K–12 districts, and pandemic learning disruptions have only heightened the issue. Educators are looking for ways to promote consistent attendance ...

PHOENIX – Around a third of Arizona’s K-12 students are absent more than 10% of the school year, leading educators to use tactics like field trips to turn those numbers around. In Arizona, a student ...

EdSource · College students repackage dining hall food waste to feed hungry peers College students repackage dining hall food waste to feed hungry peers April 30, 2026 - Students at college campuses ...

During the 2021-2022 school year, nearly two-thirds of the students enrolled in the New Haven Public Schools district in Connecticut were classified as “chronically absent,” meaning they missed 10 per ...

The pandemic has exacerbated the problem of school absences. When schools reopened, fewer pupils went to school than before the COVID-19 school closures. Students who attend school less frequently ...

The COVID-19 pandemic and schools’ responses to it resulted in learning loss that reversed two decades of progress on student achievement and drove chronic absenteeism to unprecedented heights. Yet ...

A plan dressed in all the gimcrackery of Hollywood was last week mushrooming across the country as an alleged solution for war-plant absenteeism. Workers were being wooed to come to work regularly—and ...

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