Higher interest rates take effect on July 1 for the next school year. Borrowers are already dealing with rising college costs and inflation elsewhere. By Ann Carrns Interest rates on new federal ...

For most of the past decade, the smartest thing many federal student loan borrowers could do was wait — whether that meant waiting for a payment pause to be extended, waiting for a forgiveness program ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Columbus City Schools launched a monthlong attendance challenge as Ohio schools continue working to reduce chronic absenteeism near the end of the school year. Columbus City Schools ...

A new student portal called the Triton Student System will replace My TritonLink at the end of this academic year. The TSS will incorporate all My TritonLink student and faculty resources and issue ...

Gov. Mike DeWine and Department of Education and Workforce Director Stephen Dackin unveil a new public portal to track public school attendance in Ohio on April 15, 2026. AVERY KREEMER / STAFF Staff ...

OHIO — A new tool in Ohio aims to provide fast, transparent attendance data to help schools, families and communities help reduce chronic absenteeism across the state. The dashboard features a trend ...

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Student-athletes are less likely to skip school than other students, even in the offseason, new research finds, supporting an emerging consensus that connections to activities, teachers and peers are ...

In February 2025, officials say, more than 38% of students in New York’s Dunkirk City School District were chronically absent, meaning they had missed more than 10% of school days. Just one year later ...

The Oregon Legislature is poised to pass a bill that would supersize public reporting of student attendance data. Researchers say the move is a key first step towards lowering Oregon’s ...

One of the biggest challenges far too many schools continue to face is students’ chronic absenteeism—defined as a student missing 10 percent of school days in a school year (about 18 days).

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 ...