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Vol. 38, No. 47
Also serving North Riverside
November 22, 2023
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Chronic absenteeism concerns Brookfield, Riverside school officials
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Rates have risen since the pandemic By BOB SKOLNIK
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Contributing Reporter
Nearly half the students at Lincoln Elementary School were chronically absent last year — 46.8% of Lincoln students were absent from school for 10% or more of attendance days, the school’s state report card shows. That is just the most glaring example of a surge in chronic absenteeism that has area school administrators concerned. Like many of the workers who got out of the habit of going to the office during the pandemic, students may be losing the habit of going to the classroom every day. Rates of chronic absenteeism, defined by the Illinois State Board of Education as missing 10% or more of
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