A major education issue this year is the alarming number of students who have missed many days of school — in some cases more than 20. A poll examines parents’ attitudes toward chronic absenteeism.
Some states are seeing chronic absenteeism soar to more than 40% of students from NPR Sequoia Carrillo
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