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 ...

Florida schools face alarming rise in student absences since pandemic Steven Walker, Leslie Postal and Scott Travis, Orlando Sentinel Thu, June 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM UTC ...

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 ...

Florida reopened schools earlier than some states but faces the same challenges of large shares of students missing a lot of school.

Borrowers who have defaulted on their federal student loans will no longer be at risk of having their Social Security ...

The big story: School’s out for summer. Across the Tampa Bay region and Florida, students are signing yearbooks, saying “see ya” to friends and teachers and otherwise getting ready for some ...