At César E. Chávez Elementary School in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, our school’s attendance rate climbed to 96% last year. That’s in comparison with nearly 1 in 4 students nationwide who are ...

The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) on Tuesday released attendance data of teachers and administrative staff of the state’s school districts for the 2024-2025 school year. This ...

The Press investigation of dozens of school files revealed they were misleading and possibly altered to falsely indicate more students were in school than actually were. At least two sources with ...

Chicago schools are seeing a drop in attendance among English language learners amid the highly publicized U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in the city. One high school in ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A pilot program that paid Charleston County School District students for perfect attendance last school year showed significant results beyond getting students into the ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — House Bill 611 went into effect this school year, requiring Jefferson County Public Schools to report guardians with students who have 15 or more absences to the County Attorney’s ...

Students in Illinois are still missing more school than they were before the pandemic and, for elementary school students, the number of days absent is impacting their learning even more than it did ...

In Rhode Island and other states, teacher and student absences rose during the COVID pandemic and then partially receded, demonstrating a shift in attendance patterns in which teacher absences might ...

Quincy Public Schools revised its attendance policy, reducing the number of unexcused absences allowed. Consequences for excessive absences have changed. A support system, including incentives, ...

LSU will be using student attendance from the first three weeks of the semester to affirm their eligibility for financial aid. Students are required to have attended or participated in each of their ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) - Oregon has one of the worst school attendance rates in the country, with more than a third of students missing enough class to be considered chronically absent. In the 2022-23 ...