It's a question city leaders have grappled with for decades, how to keep youths off the streets and away from lives of crime.Gov. Rick Snyder proposed his answer Wednesday while discussing public safety (in Flint). Let's get kids back in the classroom, Snyder said.
The governor proposed a program to stop truancy in public schools, calling on the Michigan Department of Human Services to put more social workers in public elementary schools in Flint, Detroit, Pontiac and Saginaw.
"I also call on DHS to require regular school attendance as a condition for eligibility for temporary cash assistance," Snyder said.
Current policy only requires school attendance for children ages 16-18 to be eligible for cash assistance to parents, he said.
"There's nothing that says, if you're 8 years old, you have to go to school," he said. "How dumb is that?"
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