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Committee lays over bill to fund statewide school-attendance public awareness campaign
Summary
House File 2043 would fund a statewide marketing campaign to reduce chronic absenteeism. Testimony from nonprofit partners, students and county programs emphasized barriers to attendance and how a public campaign could support early intervention and community expectations.
Representative Sandra Green (as listed in the hearing) presented House File 2043, proposing a statewide marketing and public-awareness campaign to boost regular school attendance and address chronic absenteeism. Green described the proposal as a complement to local interventions and cited Rhode Island as an example where a public campaign helped reduce absences.
Terrell Brum of Boys & Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities told the committee his organization would partner on…
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