The Painesville City Schools District’s student attendance rate increased in the first half of this school year while it worked to better combat chronic absenteeism. The district reported 3,821 fewer absences and 290 fewer students who were chronically absent compared to the first half of the 2022-23 school year, said Superintendent Josh Englehart. It notched […]
This essay originally appeared at FutureEd. Student testing at the national, state and local levels has given policymakers a clear, up-to-date picture of learning loss during the pandemic. But on another key recovery metric, student absenteeism, reporting has lagged badly in many states, making it difficult to know if the hundreds of millions of dollars […]