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The Indiana Department of Education released chronic absenteeism data on Wednesday.

In the 2023-24 school year, 17.8 percent of Indiana students were considered chronically absent, down 1.4 percentage points from the prior year.

Roughly a quarter of U.S. students were chronically absent last year, meaning they missed 10% or more of the school year.

Nearly one in five Indiana students missed more than 10 percent of school in 2023-24, a substantial increase from before the pandemic.

A Republican lawmaker overhauled her own proposal to tackle student truancy at a committee hearing Wednesday, after a flurry of behind the scenes conversations.