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students the district hadn't heard from. joining us now is the superintendent of the los angeles unified school district. and i should say a friend of mine, who i very much admire. alberto, 50,000 kids absent? how are there so many missing from school and how do you tackle that? >> jose, my dear friend. while this is a result of coming together of a number of factors. number one, the pandemic. put a lot of kids in position for whatever reason they stopped coming to school. economic conditions. temporarily or forever left the greater l.a. area. and the result of a change, shift in immigration policies, we believe there are considerable fears in the minds of many parents. we ended up with about 50% of kids chronically absent. we begin with monday with 50,000 out. but yesterday we reached already