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1998 Annual Report on School Safety - Truancy/Dropout
Site discusses six model programs for helping students.
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/AnnSchoolRept98/truancy.html


Manual to Combat Truancy
Guide seeks to offer parents, school officials, law enforcement and communities a set of principles to design their own strategies to combat truancy. Guide lays out five primary elements of a comprehensive community and educational strategy. Guide describes successful models of how anti-truancy initiatives are working.
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Truancy/



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