Even in the freezing air, Romian Crockett stood outside Chalmers STEAM Elementary with a boombox blaring ’90s music. Swaying to the beat, the principal hugged or high-fived each student who walked ...

Fewer Michigan kids are missing a substantial amount of school, according to new data on chronic absenteeism released Wednesday, but the numbers remain higher than before the COVID pandemic. Last year ...

A board member called the turnaround "phenomenal," saying, "It's not an easy number to improve." ...

Your “Today in Ohio” podcast recently addressed cleveland.com’s Oct. 5 report that a quarter of Ohio students are chronically absent. I looked at four school districts in my vicinity. Two of them, ...

Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy. Nearly 28% of Michigan students ...

Colorado schools are nearing the end of their second month of classes — and already some on the Western Slope are seeing signs of improvement from last year’s heightened chronic absenteeism rates.

Agency of Education officials last week proposed statutory changes that would overhaul the state's truancy and absenteeism policies and could help continue a downward trend.

Memphis-Shelby County Schools saw its high-risk chronic absenteeism rate drop to 24.2% in the first quarter. The district's overall attendance rate is 93.4%, which is two percentage points higher than ...