COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Gov. Mike DeWine and the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce on Wednesday launched a new statewide attendance dashboard aimed at tackling chronic absenteeism in schools.

Create an account or log in to save stories. [MUSIC PLAYING] NINA MOINI: It's our top story this afternoon. Minnesota lawmakers will begin considering legislation to help make sure kids are showing up ...

In February 2025, officials say, more than 38% of students in New York’s Dunkirk City School District were chronically absent, meaning they had missed more than 10% of school days. Just one year later ...

One in four students misses enough school to fall behind—a new analysis suggests that trend can be reversed.

Chronic absenteeism remains a nationwide challenge, despite efforts to return to normalcy post-pandemic. And the data suggests we are far from solving it. Right now, one in four classroom seats sits ...

Ohio schools are attacking chronic student absenteeism as a way to improve academic performance, two years after state law changed the way schools have to track attendance. Ohio Department of ...

Nearly a quarter of California’s K-12 students missed several weeks’ worth of school during the 2022-23 school year — a decrease of 5 percentage points in chronic absenteeism from the previous school ...