ELC Testimony on Truancy to the PA Senate Education Committee

Resource Type: Analysis & Research
Focus Area: Ensuring Equal Access, Stopping the School to Prison Pipeline

Senior Staff Attorney Maura McInerney provided testimony to the Pennsylvania Senate’s Education Committee at their June 9th hearing on truancy. She discussed how punitive responses to truancy can be ineffectual and counterproductive and the importance of school-level interventions to improve attendance.

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