Absenteeism has nearly doubled since the pandemic. With state and federal governments largely abdicating any role in getting kids back into classrooms, some schools have turned to private companies for a reimagined version of the truant officer.
In the past few years, chronic absenteeism has nearly doubled, Alec MacGillis writes. The fight to get students back in classrooms has only just begun.
Public schools are resorting to paying door knockers to go to the homes of chronically absent students as more schools struggle with filling the classroom.
A Concentric Educational Solutions executive said that this raise will support its “planned growth and transition to more of a blend between services and technology.”