Abstract: Manual attendance system is very time consuming and, in most cases, there are errors too and proxy attending is quite obvious. In this paper, we implemented an automatic attendance system ...

Chronic absenteeism spiked in Ohio during the pandemic and never fully recovered. Kids who miss school fall behind, disengage, and too often don’t graduate. The high stakes create an urgent need for ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WLIO) — Gov. Mike DeWine says the state is taking steps to improve school attendance across Ohio. On April 15, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce will unveil a new tool ...

Half days are disappearing in the Philadelphia School District. Beginning in the 2026-27 school year, the district won’t have a single early dismissal — for teacher planning, report card conferences, ...

School is in session. Some families are going on vacation anyway. (Illustration: Golden Cosmos for Yahoo News) Walk around Disneyland or Dollywood during a weekday in, say, early November, and you’ll ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo Public Schools is launching a new student attendance lottery to push for students to attend school. Superintendent Pascal Mubenga announced Wednesday that the district will be ...

The Trump administration’s recent surge of more than 3,000 federal agents to Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, is creating ripple effects for students, teachers and parents that go well beyond ...

Getting students to school every day and on time can be a challenge. At Communities In Schools of Benton-Franklin, the strategy is centered on positivity, creativity and connection. Data and Program ...

CREATE DATABASE student_attendances; USE student_attendances; CREATE TABLE student ( student_id INT PRIMARY KEY, student_name VARCHAR(50), department VARCHAR(30 ...

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The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) on Tuesday released attendance data of teachers and administrative staff of the state’s school districts for the 2024-2025 school year. This ...