BESE meets with judges to help students overcome truancy

BATON ROUGE – Getting students into the classroom is becoming a statewide issue, but the problem is particularly troubling in East Baton Rouge Parish.

Since the pandemic, unexcused absences have been on the rise, and leaders say the problem is that students aren’t in the classroom, they could be causing trouble.

President of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education Ronnie Morris emphasized the issue in the state…

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