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Sheldon Whitehouse: “When we looked back, we very often found, as you have said, that truancy was the first really strong signal of bad…”

On the recordJune 8, 2014
When we looked back, we very often found, as you have said, that truancy was the first really strong signal of bad things to come
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Truancy indicates future problems, often starting in middle school.

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