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That could have devastating effects in an education system beset by plummeting achievement levels and an epidemic of absenteeism (more than 10 million kids, or nearly one-third of all school-age children, regularly missed school last year).
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Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
Since the nineteen-eighties, every state has required that virtually all school-age children get vaccinated against diseases such as polio, measles, and tetanus.
—Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2025
The group’s work was used to guide the expansion of the primary COVID-19 vaccine schedule to school-age children in 2021, and booster recommendations in fall 2022.
—Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
Underneath the map and the chart is data on vaccine exemption percentages — what share of school-age children have legal permission, whether for medical or nonmedical reasons, to not be vaccinated.
—Jocelyn Shek, NBC news, 15 Sep. 2025
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Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
Since the nineteen-eighties, every state has required that virtually all school-age children get vaccinated against diseases such as polio, measles, and tetanus.
—Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2025
The group’s work was used to guide the expansion of the primary COVID-19 vaccine schedule to school-age children in 2021, and booster recommendations in fall 2022.
—Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
Underneath the map and the chart is data on vaccine exemption percentages — what share of school-age children have legal permission, whether for medical or nonmedical reasons, to not be vaccinated.
—Jocelyn Shek, NBC news, 15 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for school-age
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“School-age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/school-age. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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