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BY MADDIE WELLS<\/p>\n

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In 2005, University of Baltimore School of Law Professor Barbara A. Babb and Senior Fellow Gloria H. Danziger saw the need for a different approach to chronic absenteeism among Baltimore City Public School students. Foregoing traditional punitive methods to treat students\u2019 absences, they created what is now called the Tackling Chronic Absenteeism Project (TCAP)\u2014formerly the Truancy Court Program, or TCP\u2014to understand and treat underlying issues, foster long term academic success and strengthen ties between schools and the community.<\/p>\n

As the TCAP team likes to say, addressing chronic absenteeism is like \u201cpeeling an onion.\u201d A student\u2019s low attendance rate is often just the first layer\u2014a sign that children and their families are struggling with problems like bullying, an undiagnosed learning impairment, food insecurity, illness or substance use in the family, the loss of a parent or caregiver, housing instability or neighborhood violence.<\/p>\n

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