BALTIMORE — More than 1,000 students have not shown up to Baltimore City schools since the start of the new school year. That’s how many calls volunteers from the district office were set to make this Sunday as they aim to address chronic absenteeism from the root cause.
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“Nobody has to come today. No one’s getting paid for coming today. They’re genuinely coming because they care,” Lori Haines, Baltimore City Public School Systems’ director of student conduct and attendance, said…