California is among the 39 states that saw a drop in chronic absenteeism rates from 2021-22 to 2022-23

Chronic absenteeism rate refers to percent of students absent 10 percent or more of instructional days.

*Some states use a different definition or did not have data for 2022-23.
Chart: Yuxuan Xie, EdSourceSource: Data collected by Professor Thomas Dee of Stanford University and data journalist Sharon Lurye of the Associated Press.Get the dataCreated with Datawrapper