Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BROCKTON — Students at Brockton High School are no longer spending class time in the cafeteria, as teacher absenteeism has sharply ...

Well before the share of students missing more than three weeks of the school year skyrocketed to near-highest-in-the-nation levels during the pandemic, Oregon was battling a high rate of chronic ...

Chronic absenteeism has become a pervasive issue across multiple employment sectors driven by several factors, including personal and family health challenges, stress and burnout. This problem is ...

The percentage of students with good attendance fell sharply between 2019 and 2023, while the share of chronically absent students more than doubled, offering further evidence of the pandemic’s ...

Roughly 180 of New Haven's 1,900 teachers are absent from classrooms any given school day -- a number that has been on a slight incline over the past three years and that is now helping shape next ...

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

A growing number of states are debating whether to alter their policies on summoning child protection officials if a student ...

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Houston ISD has reduced the number of substitute teachers by more than 10% as the district takes a "proactive approach" to analyze substitute teacher requests and hiring for campuses. The district has ...

Houston ISD teacher absences dropped from about nine absences per teacher prior to state-appointed leadership to seven, ...