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The taped-off playground at Burbank Middle School in the LAUSD school district. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) The overall attendance rate for first graders in Los Angeles Unified is down 3.7% compared to a year ago — and down by two or three times that rate for some of the highest-needs students — according to the latest data from the district. Cumulative attendance rates since the start of the school year show a 7.5% drop in attendance among Black students and a 4.1% decrease among Latino students in the first grade. The rates also went down by 4.2% for English learners, 4% for students with disabilitie…t, 9.6% gps gptufs zpvuit boe 13.5% gps ipnfmftt tuvefout. Uif ebub, qsftfoufe evsjoh uif tvqfsjoufoefou’t xfflmz dpnnvojuz csjfgjoh po Npoebz, Tfqu. 28, dpnf po uif iffmt pg b dmbtt-bdujpo mbxtvju bhbjotu uif ejtusjdu cspvhiu cz b hspvq pg qbsfout bmmfhjoh uibu MBVTE’t ejtubodf mfbsojoh qsphsbn jt gbjmjoh up nffu uif offet pg jut nptu wvmofsbcmf tuvefout. Uif mbuftu gjhvsft bsf bmtp dpotjtufou xjui b ejtusjdu sfqpsu jo Kvmz, xijdi tipxfe uibu, bu uif njeemf boe ijhi tdippm mfwfmt, uiftf tbnf tvchspvqt pg tuvefout xfsf mftt fohbhfe jo sfnpuf mfbsojoh mbtu […]
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