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Schools need SEL assessments to fight chronic absenteeism

Thursday, July 9, 2026Jennifer Robitaille, Riverside InsightsView original
Districts need evidence-based SEL frameworks and tools to find and quell chronic absenteeism in the earliest stage possible.Our schools face a paradoxical challenge: chronic absenteeism, which is being treated as an attendance problem, actually isn’t.