A recent study highlights the alarming rates of chronic absenteeism in New York City schools, illustrating a stark rise from pre-pandemic statistics. In 2024, over a third of public school students missed at least 10% of the school year, with particularly severe absenteeism in urban areas like Buffalo and Rochester. Despite these troubling figures, New York’s State Education Department has opted to change how absenteeism is tracked, thereby obscuring the extent of truancy, raising concerns about accountability and the effective use of federal education funding under the new administration.
Chronic absenteeism across New York schools has reached alarming rates, with over a third of the students missing significant schooling, which harms their education.
Despite rising absenteeism statistics, state education officials have opted for a new way to track attendance, obscuring the reality of truancy and school failures.
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