Covid" effect needs to be reversed to improve attendance in a town's schools, councillors have heard. Stockton-on-Tees ...

And while chronic absence generally is more common at the high school level, the latest report shows the increases were especially pronounced at elementary schools. The rate jumped from 7% in 2017 ...

Chronic absence is typically defined as missing at least 10 percent of the school year, or about 18 days, for any reason. Increase in chronic absenteeism, 2019–23 By local child poverty rates ...

RSV, covid and flu are keeping kids out of school — and parents out of work. Workplace absences for child-care reasons rose to an all-time high in October, according to new data from the Bureau ...

With classes resuming after winter breaks, like many other schools across the country, Des Moines County school districts were not immune from concerns of a potential post-holiday COVID-19 surge ...

Denver Public Schools will excuse absences of children kept home from school as the highly contagious new coronavirus continues to spread, the district announced Thursday. “We understand that ...

Before the pandemic, absences from schools had been dropping but despite a return to normality, more than a quarter of primary schoolchildren, and more than a fifth of post-primary students missed ...

About 65% of students attending Columbus City Schools were chronically absent during the 2021-2022 school year, according to ODE's data. That's down from 74% in 2020-2021, but it's substantially ...

A "post-Covid" effect needs to be reversed to improve attendance in a town's schools, ... secondary state schools in Stockton had a 9.6% absence rate in the week starting 9 June.

In Burlington, a district with more than 3,300 enrolled students and more than 700 employees, between Monday, Jan. 3, and Friday, Jan. 7, the district reports 158 student absences due to COVID-19.

A "post-Covid" effect needs to be reversed to improve attendance in a town's schools, councillors have heard. Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council official Mandie Rowlands said there was a generation ...