Submitted Communities In Schools of Rowan County (CIS Rowan) announced significant improvements in student success, family ...

Rhode Island's chronic absenteeism decreased by 10% during the 2023-2024 school year. Rhode Island ranks high nationally in academic recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic. Consistent school ...

Given what we know from research and from schools across the country, backing away from a strong focus on chronic absence places children’s well-being in jeopardy, because attendance matters as much ...

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island's chronic student absence rate fell 4.2 percentage points last school year – the second consecutive decline since a wave of truancy swept across the nation at the end of the ...

Attendance Works, a national and state initiative that promotes awareness of the important role that school attendance plays in achieving academic success, identified an estimated 5 to 7.5 million ...

Charles Ovando, assistant superintendent of student support and development for Orland High School District 230, said he spent two years telling students, especially if they were sick, to “stay home, ...

A new campaign is underway in Itasca County schools to encourage kids to come to class. It’s called Attendance Matters! You’ll see signs and posts on social media through the week. This is to address ...

Every day counts in a child’s education and School Attendance Matters. Chronic absenteeism has been defined as missing at least 10 percent of days in a school year for any reason, including excused ...

“Attendance matters, to have our kids in school every day for the full day. It’s so important to know that when kids are in school, that is when the learning happens,” Superintendant of HIDOE Keith ...

BELOIT, WI (WREX) – The School District of Beloit announces the launch of its district-wide “Attendance Matters” campaign, designed to improve school attendance rates by engaging students, families, ...

Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Consortium on School Research explored whether middle and high school attendance matters as much for student outcomes as it did pre-COVID and whether schools ...