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The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting school closures pulled down grades and increased chronic absenteeism in San Diego Unified schools, according to statistics district leaders revealed this week.
New data presented during a board workshop Tuesday show about 14 percent of district students were chronically absent from school this year, when most students were learning online during the pandemic. That’s up from 8 percent last school year and 12 percent the year before.
Students are considered chronically absent if they miss at least 10 percent of the school days in a year. Chronic absenteeism is associated with lower grades and graduation rates.
About 45 percent of San Diego Unified’s middle and high school students have received a D or F in at least one class this school year, up from 36 percent last school year.
By Joel Malkin
Mar 12, 2021
Two men will spend time in federal prison after stealing nearly a hundred sea turtle eggs off of a South Florida beach.
Carl Cobb and Bruce Bivins, both 65, were sentenced for violating the Endangered Species Act.
Bivins got seven months for taking 93 eggs from a nest on Singer Island. Cobb, who dropped Bivins off on the Palm Beach County beach, received a nine month term.
Florida wildlife officers spotted the poaching going on last May and pulled over Cobb while he was driving. They found the eggs in his truck.
Prosecutors say the men intended to sell them.