Fully one out of every four Connecticut students are now categorized as chronically absent.
That is a sharp increase in new numbers from the state Education Department -- way up from one in ten chronically absent during BC times -- before covid.
It's even worse for special needs students -- one out of every three of whom chronically just do not show up for class.
No surprise -- then -- that the department has also found a drop in the numbers of high school kids on track to graduate.
