More than a quarter of US public-school students were “chronically absent” during the last year – missing 10% or more of the school days. “Some of this is transportation difficulties, the need to work, other poverty-related factors,” says Nat Malkus of the American Enterprise Institute. “But the real cause is the change that happened over the pandemic.”More than a quarter of US public-school students were “chronically absent” during the last year – missing 10% or more of the school days. “Some of this is transportation difficulties, the need to work, other poverty-related factors,” says Nat Malkus of the American Enterprise Institute. “But the real cause is the change that happened over the pandemic.”
Why is there an absenteeism pandemic in US schools?
