The new attendance policy says students will simply be marked absent or present, with no options for doctors to verify a ...

She would bring Charlie to his pediatrician to obtain a doctor’s note to excuse the absence. School-related anxiety is estimated to represent anywhere from 5 to 12 percent of pediatric office ...

A new school absence policy in one southern Tennessee county states that a doctor's note is no longer efficient enough to ...

Lawrence County schools in Tennessee eliminate excused absences, introduce steep penalties for attendance issues.

Charlotte has about 91.7% attendance daily and 29.6% of students are chronically absent, meaning they missed at least 10% of the school year. Statewide, about 90.8% of students are in class daily ...