It’s been 10 days, do you know where your children are?
More than one-third of New York City public schoolkids — or some 300,000 students — were “chronically absent” last year, according to a blockbuster study out Thursday.
The bombshell findings come as New York students’ test scores in math and reading remain mediocre, despite the state funneling more money into education than any other in the nation.
“I couldn’t believe my eyes when I first saw the numbers. It’s unbelievable,” said Danyela Souza Egorov, senior policy fellow at the Manhattan Institute think thank and author of the report on chronic absenteeism.
The number of K-12 students deemed chronically absent — or out for 10 days or more in the 180-day school year — has spiked…
