December 10, 2021
Response and Letter to OSSE on COVID Absences
I was glad to learn that OSSE has separate codes for students receiving instruction via distance learning due to a situational need. This practice makes it possible to look back over a given period to understand how many students were not in school due to one or more quarantine periods. Now that we have an entire first term of data to analyze, I would like to request the following information in Excel format organized by local education agency and school, grouped by first and second term and including the totals, to date: