Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration: Lex Villena/Midjourney Since COVID-19 shuttered American schools, chronic absenteeism has skyrocketed, with the ...

Officials at Virginia’s Richmond Public Schools knew something had to change when nearly 40% of students were chronically absent in the wake of the pandemic. Dozens of seats remained empty when ...

Since COVID-19 shuttered American schools, chronic absenteeism has skyrocketed, with the number of students missing more than ten percent of school days climbing from 15 to 26 percent since 2019, ...