Skip school and lose your driver's license

Sibling blog Blogging Baby posted news that the Illinois secretary of state can now deny a new driver’s license or renewal of one for any teenager who is considered a “chronic truant”: “…is absent without good reason for at least ten percent of the previous 180 school days.” Governor Rod Blagojevich authorized the law on Saturday.

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Sibling blog Blogging Baby posted news that the Illinois secretary of state can now deny a new driver’s license or renewal of one for any teenager who is considered a “chronic truant”: “…is absent without good reason for at least ten percent of the previous 180 school days.” Governor Rod Blagojevich authorized the law on Saturday.
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[Source: WLS via Blogging Baby]