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.”
