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Empty Desks
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May 17 2013 - 4:41am
More than 17,000 Baltimore students miss 20 or more days of school a year. Many of these chronically absent students and their parents say transportation is a major reason for their absences. That’s because nearly 30,000 city students use public transportation to get to school. WYPR's Gwendolyn Glenn explores the impact of transportation on school attendance, in this installment of our series "Empty Desks: The Effects of Chronic Absenteeism."
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May 3 2013 - 9:52am
A look at the top stories of the region with the reporters who covered them.This hour, we talk about the expansion of the Port of Baltimore with Christopher Lee, chairman of Ports America; we'll look at the latest in the Anne Arundel County storm water fee dispute with Rona Kobell of ...
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Mar 1 2013 - 5:55am
In Maryland, more than 85 thousand students miss a month or more of school annually, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. About 17,000 of those students live in Baltimore city. Over the course of this year, WYPR will air a series of reports exploring the causes and effects of chronic absenteeism and solutions being explored by city and county officials. WYPR’s Gwendolyn Glenn has this overview in the first report of our series: Empty Desks: The Effects of Chronic Absenteeism.
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