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That roads should be safer. i'm not sure truancy relates to unsafe roads. really parents should be held responsible for having their children go to school, should be educated on how important it is. in michigan in urban area, lower economic areas, the truancy rate is outrageous. 91,000 students truant in michigan. this is craziness. the parents need to be educated, programs that are positive not negative, regarding driver's license. i don't know the connection between driving and going to school. >> the connection is for a high school student to get a license they have to be a student, have to...

Department of human service, good morning, ladies. >> good morning. >> gretchen: cheril, you are expanding an initiative and how does welfare correlate with kids going to school? >> one of the things we want to insure are breaking generational poverty and starts with the children. if they are regularly attending school they are going to graduate and they will be successful dults that's where it starts out and we want to insure all children have an opportunity to be successful. >> gretchen: it is my understanding if they miss 10 days or more benefits are cut off and your office will try to work...

Field, and our students can do very, very well going forward. >> mike barnicle. >> okay, mr. secretary, i'm not going to ask you about harvard basketball today. >> thank god. >> but i am going to ask you to stick with the points that you just raised in terms of early childhood education. we talk a lot about high school dropout rates with the truancy rate leading up to high school just predicts the doctropout ra. what are you going to be able to do about young people coming out of college who want desperately to go and teach like in the toughest schools, inner-city schools, and they can't do it...