DC school tries paying at-risk families as a way to reduce truancy

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Some families in D.C. will soon be getting direct cash payments as part of a program that’s fighting against truancy.

The program is being carried out at the Social Justice School, a charter school in Northeast, where 15 families will each get $2,400 over the course of three months, with money distributed weekly onto debit cards.

The first payments are due to start later this month.

Read more from WTOP.

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