Artificial intelligence, however, served as a significant buffer to this drop in funding as edtech providers continue to integrate the technology for "copilot" tools, autograders and more.
With more than half of students frequently absent, Pittsburgh Arlington has one of the highest rates of chronic absence in the district. Because of that, the nanas program tries to intervene early on.
In a passionate Facebook Live address spanning nearly 20 minutes, Bibb County Schools Superintendent Dan Sims drew attention to chronic absenteeism within the district.
Chronic absenteeism, student misbehavior, accelerated learning and youth mental health are some of their biggest priorities this year. But one crisis in particular is slowing down progress in all of these areas.
Most high school math curricula feature Algebra I, Geometry and Algebra II but access to Advanced Placement courses is less common, especially in small and rural high schools and those in which a majority of the students live in poverty, new analysis reveals.
Chicago Teachers Union leadership will use this summer's contract negotiations with Chicago Public Schools to push for expansion of "sustainable community schools" in the district. The model doesn't work: students perform worse, absenteeism rises.
Chronic absenteeism has eased some from post-pandemic highs but it remains more severe in districts that, even pre-COVID, had been struggling most to keep kids in school. School leaders will need "both carrots and sticks to address the problem," one researcher contends.
Chronic absenteeism — which the state defines as missing more than 10% of scheduled school days — increased significantly at schools across the country in the years following pandemic-related classroom closures that in some cases lasted more than a year.
