Yale Insights

An Interactive Tool Helps School Districts Redesign Their Bus Schedules—and Get Kids a Little More Sleep

Yale SOM operations scholar Zhen Lian and her co-authors created an interactive tool that helped San Francisco reach consensus on school schedules, move start times later, and save millions of dollars ...

CCSD offered families $25 for each week of perfect attendance. Here's who benefitted the most.

A Charleston County School District program offering $25 a week for perfect attendance benefits low-income students and ...

District’s focus on attendance is making gains

Westfield Superintendent Stefan Czaporowski and Christopher Rogers, director of operations and safety, spoke with Reminder ...
The Daily Reveille

LSU attendance for first few weeks will affect financial aid, university says. Here’s what to know

LSU will be using student attendance from the first three weeks of the semester to affirm their eligibility for financial aid. Students are required to have attended or participated in each of their ...
NJ.com

Newark school officials say attendance rose in 2024-25, chronic absences dropped

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, ...
CBS 6

New data reveals troubling drop in student attendance after fifth grade

President Donald Trump met Friday with New York City Mayor-elect Zohram Mamdani. Both appeared to have put aside their political differences.Speaking to report Court appearance expected Monday in 2024 ...
The Hill

School struggle to solve chronic absenteeism problem since pandemic

Schools are struggling to get chronic absenteeism to pre-pandemic levels, five years after it spiked during COVID-19. Chronic absenteeism is defined as missing more than 10 percent of school days.
Winchester Star

For one Frederick County family, perfect school attendance is tradition

STEPHENS CITY — For the past two years, Sherando High School has graduated students who never missed a single day of school since kindergarten — and they happen to be siblings. Zach Hayes, Class of ...
The Journal

Student AI Use on the Rise, Survey Finds

Ninety-three percent of students across the United States have used AI at least once or twice for school-related purposes, according to the latest AI in Education report from Microsoft. In partnership ...
The New York Times

Immigration Raids Add to Absence Crisis for Schools

New research shows that after recent deportation sweeps, parents kept their children home — with big impacts on how all students learn. New research shows that after recent deportation sweeps, parents ...
Oregonian

Portland Public Schools weighs big changes to school attendance maps

Just 87 ninth graders will start high school at North Portland’s Jefferson High School next fall, as Portland Public Schools prepares to spend nearly $500 million to renovate the school, which sits at ...