1 in 3 NY students missed 10% of the 2022-2023 school year: Report

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli examined the post-pandemic surge in chronic absenteeism among students in New York in a new report released October 5. It said that during the 2022 to 2023 school year, about 33% of students missed at least 10% of school days.

Ten percent of the 180 instructional days that the state requires of schools is 18, something like three and a half weeks of school. But that's just two days a month. Such low attendance causes learning loss...