Chronical absenteeism shot up during the pandemic, but it was much worse for Latino students, according to a new study by Attendance Works and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University.
The study, which analyzed and compared federal data from the 2017-2018 and 2021-2022 school years, found that five million Latinos were chronically absent from school during the latter period, a 53 percent increase compared to the former, when the figure was 2.4 million.
