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Absenteeism has nearly doubled since the pandemic. With state and federal governments largely abdicating any role in getting kids back into classrooms, some schools have turned to private companies for a reimagined version of the truant officer.
A Pittsburgh-based non-profit released a report showing that Pittsburgh Public Schools are struggling with high chronic absenteeism and that it needs to be addressed.
Missing school has become a crisis statewide. More than one in four Kansas students were chronically absent during the 2021-22 school year, which means they missed at least 10% of instruction time. That figure nearly doubled over the previous two years.
WICHITA — Three years after the pandemic sent most Kansas kids home to learn, schools have a vexing new challenge: getting them to come back to class. Missin
It's early days in research on what causes students to be chronically absent from classrooms, but there's a burgeoning industry to help school districts tackle the problem. "Every absence has its own story," said one researcher.