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Lawrence Erased Its COVID Attendance Crisis. No Other Large Gateway City Can Say That.
Once a month in Lawrence, more than a dozen social service agencies crowd around a table to discuss every homeless and newly arrived immigrant student in the district. Housing. Healthcare. Transportat...
42 Massachusetts Districts Beat Chronic Absenteeism Back to Pre-COVID. Voc-Tech Schools Led the Way.
In Clinton, a small district west of Worcester, 8.7% of students are chronically absent. Before the pandemic, it was 16.1%. The district didn't just recover from COVID's attendance shock. It halved it...