Last year, over a quarter of ALL PUBLIC SCHOOL students across the country missed enough school to be considered chronically absent.

That is a huge surge in student absenteeism ... from before the COVID pandemic disruptions to schooling.  This stubborn problem is the KNX "big story" today ... I talked with Dr. Katie Rosanbalm at Duke University's Center for Child and Family Policy ...  and asked her about why the root of the student absenteeism problem traces back to COVID.

Much more on the KNX Big Story available on our website, KNXNews.com.