These ambiguous diagnoses can be worrisome for both parent and child and can contribute to school absenteeism, Borowitz and Tersteeg note in a paper in the medical journal Frontiers in Pediatrics.

These ambiguous diagnoses can be worrisome for both parent and child and can contribute to school absenteeism, Borowitz and Tersteeg note in a paper in the journal Frontiers in Pediatrics.

In an effort to combat chronic absenteeism, the Charleston County School District launched its new Student Attendance ...

Pediatricians must disclose adverse events and medical errors to children and their families, according to an updated policy ...

Lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle are pushing for improved attendance reporting in schools to address frequent ...

Students in County Public Schools will no longer get excused vacation days. The student attendance policy, Policy 430, previously allowed five excused absences to account for vacations that students ...

Nottingham parents should take some responsibility for the city's school absence rates as a government minister slams the "dangerous" idea of school being optional. The city was chosen as one of ...

Department for Education (DfE) data indicates that 2.3% of pupils were “severely absent”, which means they missed at least 50% of possible school sessions, in 2023/24, compared with 2.0% in ...

The Carteret County Board of Education is set to hear the second reading and give final approval to a local policy revision ...

They’re actually losing employees because of this issue,” says the co-author of a new book on chronic absenteeism in Detroit.

Department for Education (DfE) data indicates that 2.3% of pupils were “severely absent”, which means they missed at least 50% of possible school sessions, in 2023/24, compared with 2.0% in 2022/23.