In the Hasnabad area, where 750 Chowduli families live on the edge of ponds and canals, 40% of students don't show up to elementary school for half the year, teachers say, when their parents travel to work in brick kilns several miles away.

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He, the secondary school principal and the school security officer have redoubled efforts to make students show up for school, visiting truants' homes almost every day.

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However, I am going to try to arrange my schedule so I can try to show up at least a bit more for important school events.

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Gail Larkham, a head from Surrey, said the CVA scores, as they are known, could not show improvements in very bright children because primary school Sats tests only measure up to a certain level (level 5).

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In states that make it a priority to educate our youngest children, like Georgia or Oklahoma, studies show students grow up more likely to read and do math at grade level, graduate high school, hold a job, and form more stable families of their own.

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She offered a deal to develop their script and they came up with an old school Muppets movie, where the Muppets have to put on a show to save the studio.

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When Tammy McCormack didn't show up that morning at her job with the Schenectady city school district, her son was notified and went to the house to check on his mother and sister, Brown said.

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