Alec MacGillis, one of the few journalists I trust more since the pandemic has a good new article out in the New Yorker about the national chronic absenteeism crisis affecting public schools across the country.
Nationally, chronic absenteeism — 18 or more days missed in a single year — has doubled since the pandemic. In many major districts — including C…
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