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Schooling is always a handshake between students and teachers, between parents and families. The explosion of chronic absenteeism illustrates how thoroughly pandemic-era habits and school practices loosened that grip.

Some Utah schools have seen the number of chronically-absent students quadruple since the pandemic, but why are there so many empty desks in classrooms?

SmartAsset analyzed the latest IRS data to find which U.S. residents wrote off the most in taxes.

Public school districts with tighter Covid restrictions suffered larger enrollment losses, while showing little correlation with case rates.

Student enrollment has big implications for public schools, and declines can lead to less funding and school closures or mergers.

There is robust evidence that children lost ground academically as a consequence of the pandemic, but less research into how the effects varied by school district and household demographics. Using test data from 2.1 million students across the US, this column finds that remote instruction was a primary driver of widening achievement gaps by race and poverty. The authors argue

A recent national survey shows plummeting public school enrollment, especially in schools that adopted virtual learning methods during the COVID-19 pandemic.

No parent needs to be told that remote learning during COVID was a disaster.

Arizona Schools Use Data, P-EBT Program for Student Meals Arizona school districts made use of an API system offered by education research nonprofit Ed-Fi Alliance to identify and assist more than 550,000 students in need of free meals during school closures. July 15, 2021 •  Millions of K-12 students across the U.S. were in danger of losing access to free meals after COVID-19 forced schools to close their doors last year. In Arizona, school districts tur...

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