Caitlynn Peetz

Two decades ago this month, Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans—and ushered in a radical transformation of the city's schools that's largely still in place.

It's a well-known fact by now that kids are missing school more than they were a few years ago. It's a problem that is top of mind for educators and researchers, and increasingly for families.

A quarter of school-aged children don't think missing three weeks of the school year is a problem, according to a new survey

We asked superintendents at the start of a new school year. Here's what they said.

Recent research and surveys shed some new light on America's chronic absenteeism problem.

Superintendent Monique Darrisaw-Akil was intent on forging an overseas sister school partnership based on learning, not charity.