COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Gov. Mike DeWine and the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce on Wednesday launched a new statewide attendance dashboard aimed at tackling chronic absenteeism in schools.

(TNS) — A new artificial intelligence platform is helping four New Mexico school districts automate the process of tracking student absences, a task that has grown increasingly burdensome with the ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. [MUSIC PLAYING] NINA MOINI: It's our top story this afternoon. Minnesota lawmakers will begin considering legislation to help make sure kids are showing up ...

Chronic absenteeism can feel like a problem that’s way too big for district leaders to fight effectively, but building strong, trusting, and collaborative relationships with kids and their families ...

It’s just common sense that students who are able to attend school regularly are more likely to perform at grade level in reading and math, and eventually graduate on time. But during the 2023-24 and ...

Many Ohio parents and taxpayers have a new tool from the state to track a key metric in schools: attendance. It’s not mandatory for districts to submit student counts to the new attendance.ohio.gov ...

Last spring, Alabama’s DeKalb County Schools invited local physicians to lunch. The reason: Too many students were missing school for doctors’ visits, even if they had nothing more than a cough or the ...

Nearly a quarter of California’s K-12 students missed several weeks’ worth of school during the 2022-23 school year — a decrease of 5 percentage points in chronic absenteeism from the previous school ...