Before the bell rings, before a single test is taken or a lesson begins, one question is crucial to the school day: Who's not here today? In classrooms from small towns to big cities, chronic ...

As a school nurse in a rural district in Livingston, California, Lori Morgan's job usually involves scraped knees and vision tests. But she couldn't help putting one more task on her to-do list: ...

More than 1 in 5 students in Missouri K-12 schools were chronically absent from school during the 2023-24 school year, according to a newly released report from the Policy Research in Missouri ...