Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imagine being a student in an elementary school where one in three kids in your classroom is missing nearly a month of school ...

Students are missing a lot of classes. Chronic absenteeism, when a student misses at least 10 percent of the school year — which includes missing school for any reason, and not just unexcused absences ...

Students in kindergarten through third grade who miss 10% or more of the school year are about twice as likely to switch school districts — and their attendance problems often follow them, according ...

When you run a small business, you don't have many employees, and sometimes one employee makes up an entire department. When a key employee is absent -- especially if it is a prolonged absence -- it ...

The pandemic has exacerbated the problem of school absences. When schools reopened, fewer pupils went to school than before the COVID-19 school closures. Students who attend school less frequently ...