Absence

Kailani Taylor-Cribb walks through her neighborhood in Asheville, N.C., on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. Kailani hasn’t taken a single class in what used to be her high school since the height of the coronavirus pandemic. She vanished from the public school roll in Cambridge, Mass., in 2021 and has been, from an administrative standpoint, unaccounted for since then. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)

The Pandemic Missing: The Kids Who Didn’t Go Back to School

Feb 9, 2023 | Associated Press

An analysis by The Associated Press, Stanford University’s Big Local News project and Stanford education professor Thomas Dee found an estimated 240,000 students in 21 states whose absences could not be accounted for. These students didn’t move out of state, and they didn’t sign up for private school or home-school, according to publicly available data.

Viewer Mail: 7/12

Jesse Jackson Jr.'s Extended Absence

Jul 12, 2012 | WTTW News

We asked what you thought about Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.’s extended absence. We read what some of you had to say in Viewer Mail.

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s Extended Absence

Jul 11, 2012 | Lindsay Prossnitz

Multiple news outlets are reporting that Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is being treated for a "mood disorder." This, after NBC News reported that he is being treated for alcoholism, a claim his office denies. We have reaction.