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(East Moline, IL) -- A quarter of Illinois school students are still missing school on a regular basis five years after the COVID-19 pandemic began.
A new report from Advance Illinois also shows that locally, East Moline chronic absenteeism is up 9% during that period.
Educators say the COVID-era message of stay home if you feel the least bit sick needs to be reversed to get kids back in the classroom.
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