It has been over five years since the US shut down for COVID, and in many ways, the country has moved past the pandemic. For US schools, however, the pandemic’s toll has not passed so quickly. Student ...

Connecticut has stronger chronic absenteeism policies than other states but is not quite hitting the mark for its five-year goal to slash student chronic absenteeism rates in half, according to a new ...

According to a new state analysis from No Kid Hungry Virginia, nearly 32,000 more students are eating breakfast at school compared to two years ago. The growth lines up with the Youngkin ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) released its 2024-25 Chronic Absenteeism Report on Thursday. The report shows Mississippi’s chronic absenteeism rate rose to 27.6%, ...

Further analysis showed that workers who reported presenteeism earlier in the study period had significantly higher odds of being absent due to illness later in the study period. Employees who worked ...