At Nanakuli Elementary School on Oahu’s Leeward Coast, a small on-site health clinic staffed by a registered nurse is part of a new strategy to help stem the school’s high chronic absenteeism rate. Schools in the Nanakuli-Waianae area bear some of the state’s highest rates of chronic absenteeism, defined as when a student is absent … Continue reading Will More Nurses in Hawaii Schools Help Keep Kids In Class?