Thousands of students, teachers, and staff will be back in class Thursday for the first day of classes at Boston Public Schools, with lots of moving pieces involved in the state’s largest district.

More than 48,000 students and nearly 12,000 employees will return to Boston’s 119 elementary, middle, and high schools.

Officials for BPS have already been hard at work looking to address chronic absenteeism; members of BPS joined more than 70 volunteers from the BPS Engagement Center to go door-to-door, looking to get students ready to go back to school.

Included in that task force: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and BPS Superintendent Mary Skipper, who went to the homes of students marked with “chronic absenteeism” last year, hoping to help those students with whatever caused those absences.

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