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 ...

Polk County schools are seeing a significant rise in student absences due to illness. Fourteen schools throughout Polk County have reported sick absence rates greater than 10% at least one day so ...

(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 ...

It is distressing to read of an absence epidemic in public schools (“Special Report: Schools face alarming rise in student absences ... has been approved by Florida’s Public Service ...

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 ...

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 ...