Chronic absenteeism has soared for students since the onset of the pandemic, more than doubling from 8 percent prepandemic to 22 percent in fall 2021. Students from low-income households, who are more likely to encounter attendance barriers, were 1.6 times as likely as their high-income-household peers to be chronically absent from school.
To read the article, see “COVID-19 and education: An emerging K-shaped recovery,” December 14, 2021.