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The rate of chronic school absenteeism shot up across Massachusetts this academic year, with many Cape districts surpassing the state average of 17%.
In Barnstable the Cape’s largest school district the percentage of students deemed chronically absent climbed to 28.6% through March, compared with 15.2% during the previous academic year, according to the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
In the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District, 37% of students were absent at least 10% of the time, more than double last year’s chronic absenteeism rate of 14.8%.
Statewide, the chronic absenteeism rate is four points higher than in the 2019-20 and 2018-19 academic years.
HARWICH – Voters will have 49 articles to consider at town meeting this Saturday, including the operating budget for the coming fiscal year.
Due to the pandemic, the meeting again will be held at 10 a.m. outdoors on the Monomoy Regional High School stadium field.
FY 2022 operating budget
This year, voters will be asked to approve a town operating budget of $40.3 million, an increase from the current fiscal year of less than 1% – $346,988 – including debt service of $4.15 million.
Harwich’s share of the Monomoy Regional School District is $27.36 million. That represents a 2% increase over last year. The town s overall budget of nearly $67.7 million represents a 1.1%, or $736,511, increase over FY 2021.