Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: What happened to Runcie's anti-truancy plan?

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: What happened to Runcie's anti-truancy plan?:

What happened to Runcie's anti-truancy plan?

by Mike Klonsky

Byrd-Bennett gets a whisper of advice on CPS truancy from  state Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie at a Nov.meeting. (Tribune )

The CPS focus on the so-called "under-utilization" of schools is all wrong and their plan to close hundreds of schools is misdirected. That's the only reasonable conclusion one can come to, especially after reading the latest report on the district's failure to implement its own anti-truancy program. 

It turns out that the problem of dwindling attendance, particularly in low-income communities on the south and west side, has been ignored by the past three administrations at CPS, even though millions of dollars had been