"When students aren't there, you can't build relationships, you can't do the teaching and learning that really needs to happen to move students forward. Education Minister Claire Johnson said the province-wide goal is to reduce chronic absenteeism to 26 per cent by 2028. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementTo meet those targets, teachers in the Anglophone sector are being directed to a 70-page report released in June, titled Chronic Absenteeism: A Multi-Tiered System of Supports. "If we can't get them to school, we can't put eyes on them," she said. Once the dashboard is live, aggregate chronic absenteeism data will be updated three times per school year.

Source: CBC News December 22, 2025 13:02 UTC