Pupils with special educational needs and disabilities are driving a post-Covid absence crisis. The number of pupils in ...

Arlington Public Schools leaders hope to return to a lower, pre-Covid level of student absenteeism by 2030. “That last year before the pandemic, 2018-19, we were around [an] 8% rate. We have been ...

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One of the most damaging legacies of the Covid pandemic has been the absence rate in school classrooms across the country.