Mayor
Limiting plea agreements, increasing consequences: How DC’s mayor wants to handle absenteeism
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has unveiled a plan to address truancy and absenteeism and put in place more serious consequences for middle schoolers caught with drugs or guns on school grounds. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has unveiled a plan to address truancy and absenteeism and put in place more serious consequences for middle schoolers caught […]
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City Council
New Orleans City Council hopes to reestablish schools truancy center | #citycouncil
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO)—The New Orleans City Council is taking a fresh look at juvenile truancy and its connection with crime. Officials say, since the COVID-19 pandemic, Orleans Parish has seen a historic amount of truancy among juveniles. “On the fifth of this year, we had a teen dropped off at an emergency room at 2:20 […]
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