Press Releases
New Report Calls for the Use of Chronic Absence Data to Improve Conditions for Learning and Student Outcomes
San Francisco, September 10, 2019 – Improving student outcomes require combining attention to chronic absence with investments in school climate, according to a new report released today. Drawing on the expertise of Attendance Works and American Institutes for Research (AIR), the new report, Using Chronic…
National Analysis of Chronic Absence Data Revised to Reflect Local Data Reporting Error
SAN FRANCISCO, January 9, 2019 – In response to an honest error, Attendance Works and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University School of Education published an updated version of their report about national chronic absence levels. The error changed national figures for African-American…
Analysis Finds More Than One in Four Students Attend Schools with High or Extreme Levels of Chronic Absence
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31, 2018 – Nearly 8 million students in the nation were chronically absent in the 2015-16 school year, while one out of every four students attend schools with high or extreme levels of chronic absence. Now for the first time, a new…
Almost 10,000 Public Schools Reporting 30% of Students are Chronically Absent
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1, 2017 – There are almost 10,000 public schools across the United States – or 11 percent of the total – at which chronic student absence rates affect 30 percent or more of their students, a new analysis shows.
New Report Shows Chronic Absenteeism Concentrated in 4% of Districts
SAN FRANCISCO, September 6, 2016 – Nine out of 10 U.S. school districts experience some level of chronic absenteeism among students, but half of the nation’s chronically absent students are concentrated in just 4 percent of its districts, according to a new analysis of federal…
New OCR Brief Shows U.S. Schools Facing Crisis in Student Attendance
Washington, D.C., June 7, 2016 – The release of the first-ever national compilation of data on how many public school students are missing so much school they are academically at risk shows the country is facing a crisis of chronic absence that’s keeping millions of…
New Research, Policy Brief, Contest Announced in First-Ever Nationwide Attendance Awareness Month
Aug. 26, 2013 — As 55 million students return to U.S. schools this fall, 40 national organizations and as many as 900 schools and community groups are sounding the alarm about a crisis of absenteeism that is eroding academic achievement and putting students at greater…
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