The COVID-19 pandemic sparked high absenteeism in public schools statewide, and five years later thousands of students miss ...

Absenteeism in school districts throughout Florida skyrocketed beginning during the COVID-19 pandemic — and, confounding ...

Nearly one million Florida students missed more than three weeks ... “If the pandemic was an earthquake, the subsequent rise in absenteeism has been a tsunami that is continuing to disrupt ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Ivan Flores didn’t love school before the pandemic hit, but his views soured more when he did ninth grade online and off campus. “I was just at home doing nothing ...

Recent data revealed a troubling trend in Florida: chronic absenteeism, with students missing 10% or more of the school year. Since 2018, Florida has seen a staggering 54.5% increase in chronic ...

(WFLA) — The Pasco County School District in Florida is introducing a new ... according to the director The rise in absenteeism is a side effect from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Thomas ...

Florida school absenteeism, post-pandemic ... However, that alarming rise, undoubtedly caused by the pandemic, left some sensible hope that attendance might return to pre-pandemic rates when ...

A Florida State Senator has introduced a bill aimed to address chronic absences by students attending public schools. Sign up for our Newsletters Senate bill 938, which was introduced by ...

In March 2024, a New York Times piece examined the reasons why school absences have "exploded," citing research from the American Enterprise Institute that found 26 percent of public school ...