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My name is Lauren Bauer and I'm a scholar with the Hamilton Project at Brookings. Every morning, millions of families start their day with a routine like mine: make breakfast, pack lunches, drop the kids off at school, go to work. Every day, millions of students across America are in school and learning, but every year, millions of students miss a lot of school. These absences are represented by the red blocks. In the 2013 school year, about 6.8 million students were chronically absent, meaning they missed more than three weeks of school. Being chronically absent is associated with a lot of poor outcomes like lower student achievement and lower course performance. High absence rates— the holes that chronically absent students leave behind— affect students with good attendance too. If a teacher waits to introduce new material until more students are present, all students fall behind. When an absent student is in school, a teacher may use class time to bring them up to speed. Eviden