Waynesboro School Board's regular meeting Tuesday included a variety of important topics, including Attendance Awareness ...

Hyderabad: Gone are the days of playing truant for students of govt-run junior colleges in the state. The govt is rolling out an AI-powered facial recognition system to track student attendance. As of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Just days before the start of the fall semester, Newark public school officials announced that attendance in the 2024-25 school year was up and chronic absenteeism down for all grades. Districtwide, ...

Chronic absenteeism still plagues schools. Learn the real impacts and proven strategies districts use to boost attendance.

The Omaha Public Schools hope leveraging “improvement science” can help address the district's continued high rates of chronic absenteeism.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The Kentucky Department of Education launched a statewide campaign to support school attendance. Signs were placed across the state to remind students that missing school is ...

The 2025-2026 school year began with empty seats in several Charleston County public schools serving large populations of English learners. Ten days after the start of the academic year, Charleston ...

Then President Donald Trump was elected to his second presidential term with promises to increase deportations of undocumented immigrants. The community in Fresno County, California, has a large, ...

Mandatory uniform policies have been the focus of recent discourse on public school reform. Proponents of such reform measures emphasize the benefits of student uniforms on specific behavioral and ...

Districts aiming to hire Black teachers, add Black history classes and talk about white privilege are increasingly under scrutiny, raising questions about what is legal, and also what works. By Dana ...