According to one estimate, up to $31 trillion in U.S. economic activity hinges on addressing pandemic-era backsliding alone. States had more than $40 billion in federal funding available to help address this crisis.
For decades, the Annie E. Casey Foundation and our many partners have sounded the alarm that America is not equipping kids to learn and succeed. There are multiple related factors that would improve the situation.
The number of chronically absent students almost doubled from 2018-19, the final full school year before the pandemic. Nationally, 30% of all students, nearly 15 million kids, were chronically absent during the 2021-22 school year.
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