Schools across the country are about to be held accountable for student attendance — attaching stakes to a measure that previously had much less significance and increasing the risk that schools will try to manipulate that data.
December 3, 2017
Posted inEducation
Teaching teens the perils of pot as marketplace grows
After Yarly Raygoza attended the drug prevention program at the Boys & Girls Club last year, she used what she learned to talk a few friends out of using marijuana. The 14-year-old took the class again this year but worries that counseling her friends will become more difficult.
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Sexual harassment, tax bill, Flynn’s plea dominate the week
Allegations of sexual misconduct loomed large for a third straight week – this time taking down NBC Today show co-host Matt Lauer and the longtime star of The Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor. But the week’s drama was only getting started.