With over 1 million students attending over 1800 schools, it is critical to ensure that no students fall through the cracks. The AOG is responsible for ensuring that teachers and administrators are adequately tracking students and following up with absent students and their families. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of chronically absent students and students whose absence pattern appears to be approaching a chronic level increased dramatically, necessitating an update to the internal auditing system in order to gain a better understanding of the problem.