Press Releases
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…