Across the country, kids are settling into new school year routines. Parents buy backpacks, teachers arrange desks and lesson ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Garfield Heights City Schools earned 2.5 out of five stars on the 2025-26 state report card, a step down from 3 stars in 2024-25. The overall rating of at least three stars means a ...

A Look at State-Level Attendance Policies: The book also acknowledges that state governments have become opinionated about how districts reduce absenteeism, with many requiring specific interventions, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -East Cleveland City School District – which was plagued by low test scores for over a decade – maintained its 3-star rating and continued meeting state standards for the second ...

It's Attendance Awareness Month, and a good time for IITennessee schools to look past the numbers to what's keeping students away ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The number of absent students has nearly doubled since 2020. (Anastasia Babenko/Getty Images) (Anastasia Babenko/Getty Images) And ...

Kindergarten is an important time in a child's life, during which children acquire and strengthen the skills needed to ...

Maryland’s chronic absenteeism rate dropped slightly last school year, but the state fell far short of its own goal of ...

When Louisiana education leaders started to shift greater focus to fighting high rates of absenteeism in schools, we gave ...

Maryland's superintendent of schools is announcing a statewide decline in the chronic absenteeism rate. Dr. Carey M. Wright ...