LOS ANGELES — Yordi Luna, 15 — who excels at math, likes science and loves playing football — missed about 40 to 50 days of classes during his first year of high school, mother Leydi Luna said.
"I knew he was missing, and I knew it was my responsibility to do something," she said. But it wasn't clear what.
As a single mother who had to drop her younger child at school before getting to work by 8 a.m., she often simply couldn't get him to go as his motivation had slowly evaporated beginning in March 2020 when campuses closed.
