When students stop showing up to school, it is rarely because they have stopped caring about their education. More often, chronic absenteeism is a sign that something isn’t working — academically, ...

To overcome a projected multibillion-dollar deficit in the 2025-27 biennium and pass a budget, Washington state lawmakers worked the angles in 2025, from new revenue streams to sweeping spending cuts.

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - The second nine weeks is coming to an end soon, and both Caddo and Bossier school districts say they have seen positive attendance numbers so far this school year. Despite ...

Despite vows to boost attendance and more than $17 million being poured into anti-truancy programs, absence rates in D.C. Public Schools worsened last year while the city’s charter schools showed ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Parents, residents, and community leaders in D.C.'s Ward 8 gathered for a roundtable discussion on truancy and chronic absenteeism plaguing D.C. Public Schools, which public ...

Louisiana K-12 unexcused absences remain above 40% since 2020 Truancy highest in Tensas, Pointe Coupee, St. Bernard, and St. Landry parishes Chronic absenteeism statewide is 22.5%, slightly below ...

The city's truancy ordinance was previously active from 2009 to 2018 but was suspended due to concerns about its punitive nature. Chronic absenteeism in Appleton high schools has risen to 25%, nearly ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - State and local education leaders gathered in Baton Rouge on Wednesday, Sept. 17, as they work to tackle one of Louisiana’s biggest challenges in education, truancy. Truancy ...

A Pennsylvania senator is urging her colleagues to combat a statewide school truancy problem that she calls an “educational crisis.” Across the commonwealth, school attendance rates dropped from 85% ...

HARRISBURG — State Sen. Tracy Pennycuick, R-24th Dist., has introduced a bill to address a rise in school truancy and chronic absenteeism across Pennsylvania. Truancy continues to be a statewide ...

HARRISON COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - It’s been one full school year since House Bill 611 went into effect, a law aimed at cracking down on chronic absenteeism. Lawmakers mandated that school districts refer ...