When employees aren’t well or juggling too much, elevated rates of absenteeism are one signal for organizations to look for. And that signal comes at a cost for organizations. The CDC reports that ...

As school districts rush to address a recent surge in chronic absenteeism, states have improved efforts to track and report on it . But many still lack clear definitions that would help to insure ...

A majority of American parents see chronic absenteeism as a “major problem,” but only about a third can correctly define it. Those are the findings of an NPR/Ipsos poll released June 6, which reveal ...

Why is it that only 15% of public school leaders say they’re “extremely concerned” about student absences, according to a recent Education Department survey? By any measure, this level of absenteeism ...

More than five years after the pandemic threw schools off course, the latest evidence suggests that progress toward solving the nation’s attendance problem is slowing down well short of the finish ...

Nearly one in four Arkansas' 258 public school districts -- 24% -- experienced "extreme chronic absenteeism" in the 2021-22 school year, meaning that 30% or more of students in a district missed 10% ...