Chronic absenteeism remains high six years after pandemic began

Millions of American children are regularly missing class.
Nearly a quarter of American children did not show up for school regularly last year, data shows.
Chronic absenteeism continues to decline slowly at public schools across the country but remains higher now than it was before the pandemic, according to data collected from 45 states by the American Enterprise Institute, a free-market-oriented think tank.
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