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 ...

Absenteeism across Florida skyrocketed beginning with that ... “This was little kid stuff,” the Valencia College student said of his former patterns. But there are not enough Ivans.

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, waking up ...

It is distressing to read of an absence epidemic in public schools (“Special Report: Schools face alarming rise in student ...