Biden’s plan for kids who skip school is to give them more school to skip

(FRONT PAGE MAG) – When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And when all you have is the ability to fund government programs, then the solution to everything is funding government programs. No matter how backward that might be.

The U.S. Department of Education announced Wednesday a plan for states to provide more tutoring, after-school and summer programs and funding to tackle chronic absenteeism. The chronic absenteeism rate reached about 31% in 2021-2022 because of COVID-19.

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It wasn’t COVID-19, but the decision by teachers’ unions to shut down schools. School attendance has proven a lot easier to break than to fix. In California, chronic absenteeism still hovers around the 30% mark. One survey of 11 states pegged it at around a quarter.