Absences, truancy still rising in Kentucky schools after COVID pandemic; lawmakers concerned

(TNS) School districts on both ends of Kentucky are seeing continued downward trends in daily attendance and increases in “chronic absenteeism” following the COVID-19 pandemic, state and school officials told

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