K-12 Chronic Absenteeism Rates Down From Peak, but Remain Persistently High
Aug 22, 2025
K-12 Chronic Absenteeism Rates Down From Peak, but Remain Persistently High
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Since hitting a record high in 2022, national chronic absenteeism rates have dropped modestly — by about five percentage points — according to the most recent available data, but still remain persistently higher than pre-pandemic levels.
Flagstaff Academy Charter School has once again earned statewide and national acclaim, having been named one of the 2025 Colorado Trailblazer Schools to Watch
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In April, the U.S. Department of Education resolved an obscure 2013 privacy complaint — a dispute so old that the student at the heart of it has almost certainly graduated by now.
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The U.S. Department of Education will start to bring back roughly 250 civil rights staffers that it tried to fire in March, according to a schedule the U.S. Department of Education submitted in federal court Tuesday.
