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28% of Public School Teachers Chronically Absent, Why?
A new analysis by the Thomas P. Fordham Institute has found that more than 28% of public school teachers are chronically absent.
Chronically absent is considered missing work due to illness more than 10 times in a school year.
In the report titled "Teacher Absenteeism in Charter and Traditional Public Schools” they state:
The percentage of teachers in traditional public schools who take more