• Courts, prosecutors fighting truancy focus on middle schools (p)(f)
  Prince George’s judges and prosecutors have turned their anti-truancy efforts toward middle school parents and children in a new phase of an operation to keep children in school. Jan 11, 2007
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• Johnson Asks Ministers To Take Roll On Hospitals - washingtonpost.com (f)
  Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson (D) has suggested that the Collective Banking Group, which represents some of the most powerful ministers, have a role in selecting the board of directors for Dimensions Healthcare, the company that runs the county's hospital system. Aug 2, 2007
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• Md. Moves To Tie Teens' Truancy to Licenses (f)
  The House of Delegates approved a bill that would deny driver's licenses to students with 10 or more unexcused absences in the previous calendar year. A similar measure passed the Senate Judiciary Committee late yesterday, and it appears to have wide support in the full chamber. Mar 16, 2007
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• PG has state’s second worst rate of chronic truancy (p)(f)
  The bad news is that many of the county’s high schools have double-digit rates for habitual truancy; more than 20 percent of students at some schools skipped classes or were absent without a good excuse for the 2005-06 school year. Jan 18, 2007
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• PG school board did not vote to sell Springhill Lake E.S. (p)(f)
  Since the Prince George's Board of Education's Jan. 11 workshop, a lot of confusion and misinterpretation of my vote to send a letter to AIMCO (Apartment Investment and Management Co.) has been swirling. Jan 18, 2007
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• PRINCE GEORGE'S AREA SCIENCE FAIR
  Mar 24 2006/2007 (f)
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• Prince George's Students Will Get Free Bus Rides (f)
  Metro [and the county-run system TheBus] will give free bus rides to school-age children on weekdays between 2 and 7 p.m. in Prince George's County starting Aug. 20, the first day of public school in the county. July 27, 2007
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• Reports On School Crimes Are Rare (f)
  The recent announcement that Montgomery County school officials were starting work on an annual report of crimes committed by students and other disciplinary incidents underscored a surprising fact: In this era of heightened concern about school safety, few Washington area school systems regularly report such offenses to the public. APril 29, 2007
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• Tracking truants in PG (p)(f)
  Add truancy to the list of priorities for school officials in 2007 — not just getting control of the problem, but also making sure the statistics are accurately tracked and reported. Jan 5, 2007
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