Imagine this scenario: Two students are sick. Both miss five days of school. One student has a family physician, and their parents are familiar with school policies. This student returns to school ...

You feel torn when a school's perfect attendance prize sidelines a child who missed days for therapy. The situation sparks ...

A new study has found that school absence leads to lower educational qualifications and poorer wellbeing in early adulthood.

Students from low-income households and certain racial and ethnic groups have a higher percentage of their school absences deemed unexcused than their peers, which means they are more likely to be met ...

For K-12 students, chronic absence, generally defined as missing 10 percent or more of school days, has escalated into a “full-scale crisis” since 2019, says a new report from the nonprofit Attendance ...

One relatively simple and low-cost intervention for rural districts has the potential to reduce student absences by nearly 5%, according to new research. That intervention: Sending periodic, ...

The El Paso Independent School District potentially lost about $3.25 million in state funding during the 2023-24 school year over unexcused absences and poor attendance reporting, according to an ...

Some Green Bay high school parents say their students are have been marked absent when they're in class. Here's what you ...

Teachers in the USA's largest school districts missed an average of 11 days, according to a report on teacher attendance released Tuesday. The study from the National Council on Teacher Quality looked ...

The authority for excusing all class absences rests with the instructor of the course. If the professor is requesting confirmation of documentation, please reach out to your College Assistant Dean’s ...

Each instructor shall, in writing, at the beginning of each semester or Short Term, make clear to the students in the course the expectations regarding attendance and nonattendance at classes and ...