The Law Works - West Virginia Public Broadcasting

The Law Works

Thursday at 8:30 pm on WV PBS

Friday at 11:00 am on WV PBS2

The Law Works is a weekly show on West Virginia PBS discussing legal issues that affect daily life. The Law Works considers issues ranging from how to buy a house, to identity theft, and wiretapping.

May 10, 2012 - # 1319

Truancy

Forty years ago, the United States had the highest public school graduation rate in the world. Today we're number nineteen. In West Virginia we have a public school truancy rate of up to fifty percent in some counties. We'll talk about Truancy on the next, The Law Works.

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Truancy in West Virginia

Dan Ringer has worked with West Virginia Public Broadcasting as a volunteer since 1987 in several capacities, including as co-host of 2 prior public affairs series - On the Line With ... and Stateline Friday. He has also hosted numerous WV PBS specials concerning education, voters' rights, and political candidate debates. In 1999 Dan was named WV's first Lawyer Citizen of the Year of the WV Bar Foundation. He served as president of the WV State Bar 1999-2000 and was named the Practitioner of the Year by the American Bar Association in 2000. Dan practices law in Morgantown.

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