School attendance is key to academic success. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, national data indicate more students have been chronically absent, defined by experts as missing 15 days or more during the school year. Lower attendance numbers in metro Atlanta in early January, amid the omicron surge, show that absences remain a hurdle for schools.

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UPS driver Dan Partyka delivers an overnight package. As more people buy more goods online, the rapid and unrelenting expansion of e-commerce is causing real challenges for the Sandy-Springs based company. (Bob Andres/AJC 2022)

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