US education crisis deepens: the number of ‘chronically absent’ students rose by 6.5 million after the pandemic – nearly HALF of schoolkids are AWOL in Alaska and New Mexico
The number of chronically absent schoolkids jumped by 6.5 million from before the pandemic to the 2021-22 year, says a study on how COVID lockdowns hurt classroom attendance. More than a quarter of students missed at least 10 percent of the 2021-22 school year, making them chronically absent, Stanford University research shows. Before the pandemic, …