ALBANY, NY (WENY) Starting on the first of the new year, New York childcare providers and families will become eligible for a second round of federally funded stabilization grants.
Even as New York City required students to return to in-person instruction last school year, hundreds of thousands of children missed large stretches of instruction.
The poor attendance trend has only worsened this year: 37% of city students are repeatedly out so far, according to the DOE a percentage that, if it persists through the end of the year, would be far higher than any year-end chronic absence rate going back at least to 2000.