Sweeping changes to the Naperville District 203 school day would not be implemented until the 2026-27 academic year if ...

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne called absenteeism a "disastrous" situation impacting schools and called for schools to adopt stricter measures regarding absences and tardies.

Horne said on Monday schools should adopt rules that if a student has nine absences that student would fail a course and five tardies would count as an absence. “The idea that a third of our ...