The superintendent’s estimate of missing students is based on outreach efforts by district staff to families and on assessments from outside groups. Based on the discussions, he said there may be even more than 20,000 missing students, but numbers are hard to lock down. Several students in his outreach group told him of school-age siblings who were not in attendance at times last year. “We continue to hire every single day,” Carvalho added. In addition, the district is short about 200 bus drivers out of a workforce of 1,000.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 31, 2022 07:44 UTC