Covid" effect needs to be reversed to improve attendance in a town's schools, councillors have heard. Stockton-on-Tees ...

And while chronic absence generally is more common at the high school level, the latest report shows the increases were especially pronounced at elementary schools. The rate jumped from 7% in 2017 ...

Only 2% of schools with the fewest low-income students had high or extreme levels of chronic absences, compared with 72% of schools in which three-quarters or more of students were ... Gov. Gavin ...

Missing meals could be a result of absences, as well. Low attendance days, which mean a school district has less than 75% of students in attendance, can affect the district.

Before the pandemic, absences from schools had been dropping but despite a return to normality, more than a quarter of primary schoolchildren, and more than a fifth of post-primary students missed ...

In the autumn of 2020, overall absence rates had risen to 13.5 per cent of sessions missed – the majority of these (8.7 per cent) were “forced” absences, due to children not being allowed to come to ...

Post-Covid anxiety and poor mental health a ‘key driver in children skipping school’ Children lost an estimated 11.5 million days of learning last autumn term as school absence rates remain ...

A "post-Covid" effect needs to be reversed to improve attendance in a town's schools, ... secondary state schools in Stockton had a 9.6% absence rate in the week starting 9 June.

In March 2020, the Covid pandemic shut down schools, creating havoc, particularly among California’s most vulnerable children. Five years later, despite unprecedented funding from the state and ...

A "post-Covid" effect needs to be reversed to improve attendance in a town's schools, councillors have heard. Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council official Mandie Rowlands said there was a generation ...