Nearly half of Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) students—or about 200,000 students—have been “chronically absent” since September —meaning they have missed almost 10 percent of school days this year, according to an April 3 story in the Los Angeles Times.
This comes as the district struggles to recover from setbacks brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, even as schools returned to in-person learning this year and mask mandates were lifted last month.
