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Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris and Lawmakers Introduce Bills to Fight Truancy 'Crisis'

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A child is considered truant in California if they're late by more than 30 minutes without a valid excuse, or missing altogether, three times in one school year. Attorney General Kamala Harris says 30 percent of elementary school students in California were truant during the last school year, and that, she says, constitutes a crisis. Yesterday in Sacramento, Harris joined a group of lawmakers to introduce a package of five bills to address the problem.

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