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It wasn't just COVID-19. Randi Weingarten and the rest of the education bureaucrats have done what they can to keep kids out of class and keep schools closed across the country.
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.