If the organization you’re running suddenly finds itself with 30% of its nominal clients chronically no longer engaging with your services, you’ve got a problem.
An existential one, as even the non-philosophers among us now term an issue that could lead to your, well, non-existence.
And since California schools have a chronic absenteeism rate of 30% in the new post-COVID-19 environment, where are the alarm bells about our public education system’s ability to survive?
Because they clearly should be ringing in our ears.
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Crisis in California public schools with 30% absentees
- by: THE EDITORIAL BOARD
- 2023-09-15
- Source:
The Orange County Register
- 09/15/2023
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