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Get essential education news and commentary delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. Students learning remotely missed the most days of school this year, according to new data from Connecticut. And students who were chronically absent in the fall were far more likely to keep missing school during the […]

Chronic Absenteeism Is a Huge School Problem. Can Data Help? The pandemic has significantly increased the number of students who don’t attend class. Solutions aren’t easy, but school districts can recover the chronically absent by digging deeper into data. May 24, 2021 •  1/1: empty classroom 4 () The education losses resulting from pandemic school closures and an unanticipated shift to remote learning have slowed academic achievement. But n...

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Connecticut Department of Healths LEAP Program Will Help Address Student Absenteeism and Disengagement Written by CT DPH Governor Ned Lamont and his administration are launching a new state program for K-12 students struggling with absenteeism and disengagement during the 2020-21 school year during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Learner Engagement and Attendance Program (LEAP), will target 15 school districts across Connecticut. Through the program, support personnel will go directly to ...

Published April 16. 2021 2:19AM  By PAT EATON-ROBB and SUSAN HAIGH, Associated Press Connecticut officials say the impact of the pandemic on students and their families could lead to long-term changes in how the school day and school year look in the state. Gov. Ned Lamont was joined Thursday by federal and state political leaders along with local and state education officials in a roundtable to discuss the future of education and how they plan to use the tens of millions of dollars in federal...

Manchester Schools Part Of State Virus Disengagement Program Patch 1 hr ago Chris Dehnel © Chris Dehnel/Patch Manchester schools are taking part in a state program that is studying the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on students. MANCHESTER, CT — Manchester is part of a new state program aimed at engaging students in kindergarten through high school who have struggled with absenteeism and "disengagement" during the 2020-21 school year as a result of the coronavirus pa...

Women’s work, ‘Curated Cocktails,’ Met Gala: News from around our 50 states From USA TODAY Network and wire reports Alabama Montgomery: The state has temporarily paused giving the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine out of an “abundance of caution” while federal officials investigate reports of rare blood clots, the state health officer announced Tuesday. Dr. Scott Harris cautioned people to remember those were just six incidents out of 6.8 million doses of ...

Governor Ned Lamont said Connecticut will spend $10.7 million from its share of COVID-19 relief money on a program to tackle school absenteeism.

Nearly $11 million in emergency education funding is being directed toward improving student engagement and attendance concerns that have grown worse during COVID-19 in 15 Connecticut school districts, Gov. Ned Lamont announced Monday.

Connecticut plans allocate millions of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief funds toward education programs designed to help make up for learning lost by the state's schoolchildren during the...