Chronic absenteeism was “substantially higher” in public school districts that went online during the COVID-19 pandemic than in those that maintained in-person instruction, a study has found. Three economists from the University of Notre Dame compared the number of virtual school days in 11,017 districts during the 2020-21 academic year to their tallies of students who missed at least 10% of classes before and after campus lockdowns. They found that the rates of perpetually missing K-12

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