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February 10, 2021
From September to November 2020, daily school attendance declined 2.3 percentage points from the same period in 2019. Attendance declined in 75% of the measured districts, falling an average of 1.5 percentage points each month.[1]
According to The Wall Street Journal, these figures are from “PowerSchool, a company that helps schools track grades and attendance...The data covers 2,700 districts that include more than 2.5 million students learning in person and online.”[1]
The Wall Street Journal reports that “Limited data from some states and districts shows that students learning remotely—especially students of color, special needs and elementary school students—were attending school less often compared with their in-school classmates.”[1]
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