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Empty Desks News
Mar 15 2013 - 6:45am
Baltimore city school officials say the number of homeless students enrolled in the district so far, 1,900, is higher than it was last year at this time. What’s just as worrisome for officials is that 44 percent of those students are chronically absent from school. In this installment of “Empty Desks: The Effects of Chronic Absenteeism,” WYPR’s Gwendolyn Glenn reports on the obstacles homeless students face getting to school.
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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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